Paul D. Smith wrote:Yeah - I took some moments to put some tracing statements into remake.c, did figure out when makefile targets were being processed... however, that loop is like 4 way resursive - that is there's at least 4 places where the update_file() routine is called, and getting them all to understand that this is a result that needs to be immediately returned is definatly not simple :)
Making it work the way you want (if I understand you correctly), where steps 2 and 3 are performed in a loop so that the re-exec happens immediately when each makefile is rebuilt instead of after all the makefiles are rebuilt, is simply not the way make is designed. Trying to make it behave this way is extremely tricky, as shown by my example.
Actually - that's not a big deal, in fact the file structure could easily just have a status bit indicating it satisfied a search for a included makefile rule...
IMHO, it's also a gross hack that'll slow down make processing considerably; for each target built, make would have to check if the target was included -- that can potentially be lots of checks.
But, That remake loop *shakes his head* that'll take some cipherin'.
Jim
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