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-
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
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
%% 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
Dear developers,
I am running into strange kind of a problem with "make" on
$ make -v
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Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu
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