make doesn't always reread included makefiles

Under certain circumstances, make fails to notice that one or more included makefiles have changed and does not restart and reread makefiles. Here's the best I could do at minimizing this... $ make --version GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for i686-pc-linux-

Guidelines for generating files into the source dir

For a long time, using $(srcdir) in targets and prerequisites in Makefiles have seemed a little magic to me. It breaks too often, usually in ways like automatic dependency generation not working. So I've tried to create a small toy project, and a testscript that builds the projects in various ways

Re: Guidelines for generating files into the source dir

I wrote: > For a long time, using $(srcdir) in targets and prerequisites in > Makefiles have seemed a little magic to me. It breaks too often, > usually in ways like automatic dependency generation not working. Ooops, I sent this mail too early, before getting to the conclusion. Anyway, I think m

Re: make doesn't always reread included makefiles

%% Paul Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pf> Under certain circumstances, make fails to notice that one or more pf> included makefiles have changed and does not restart and reread pf> makefiles. This is a complex problem. Here is what happens: First, make tries to rebuild Make.b (it g

problem with make

Dear developers, I am running into strange kind of a problem with "make" on $ make -v GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000  Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free