Ted Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Apr 2005 at 13:56 UTC-0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> I'm having some trouble with a set of dependencies that >> indirectly depend on a common file. Here's a minimal makefile >> that demonstrates the problem:
[...] >> # Turn off implicit rules to make `make -d' output easier to read. >> .SUFFIXES: >> %: %,v >> %: RCS/%,v >> %: RCS/% >> %: s.% >> %: SCCS/s.% > > This is a bit of overkill. I would recommend instead to always use > the -R command line flag, which turns off all built-in rules and > variables. It is sort of like declaring IMPLICIT NONE in Fortran ;-). This is simply part of my stripped-down example. It is not anything I would use in practice. (However, I was not aware of -R before.) >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> When I run this in a tight loop, as with >> >> rm -f foo >> touch x d >> while ! grep newer foo; do >> make clean > /dev/null >> make > /dev/null >> echo x > x >> make -d > foo >> done >> >> it typically iterates for a few seconds (with most iterations not >> seeing any change in file times, presumably because everything >> happens too fast), and then stops with this output in foo: > > I can bet you're going to have problems here! Why are you doing this? To reliably demonstrate a problem that I have seen elsewhere in other circumstances. > I'd also recommend trying a different filesystem. Reiserfs, for > example, handles small files better. Why do you think this issue is related to small file handling? -- "Debian for hackers, Red Hat for suits, Slackware for loons." --CmdrTaco <URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/22/0928207.shtml> _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
