"David Highley wrote:" > > "Edward Welbourne wrote:" > > > > > Every time the subject of cache comes up its because they are always > > > wrong. > > > > well, this *is* a *bug* list - every time anything comes up here, it's > > because someone's found a bug in it ! The vast amount of the time > > that the cache works just fine and makes builds faster is (quite > > properly) not normally the subject of posts to the bug-make list ...
Good news, it appears that Red Hat 5.4 with GNU make 3.81-3 fixes the issue we are running into. Now to find the right version for Cygwin. > > That's the issue, things used to work reliably. Now we seem to accept > that they work most of the time. So far I find no acceptable way of > modifying this build to be reliable. Here is the tough part of trying to > fix this issue. If your trying to support a large build system and have > consistency across subsystems and minimize multiple typing of code to > minimize maintenance failures then it is very hard to solve this issue. > > So far the only way I have been able to get the build to work it to add > the macro $(DIRS) to the dependency line and change the $(LINK) macro > not to use $^ but to use $(INF_DIST_SVCS_OBJS) which totally breaks any > kind of maintainability across a large build system. > > In the information provided the macro $(LINK) can be one of: > LINK_STATIC = \ > PATH=$(PATH) \ > $(AR) \ > $(AR_OUT) \ > $^ > LINK_SHARED = \ > PATH=$(PATH) \ > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) \ > $(LD) \ > $(LD_OUT) \ > $(LIB_NAME) \ > $(LDXFLAGS) \ > $(LDBFLAGS) \ > $^ > LINK_DLL = \ > PATH=$(PATH) \ > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) \ > $(LD) \ > $(LD_OUT) \ > $(LIB_NAME) \ > $(LDXFLAGS) \ > $(LDBFLAGS) \ > $^ \ > $(LIBS) \ > $(PLATFORM_LIBS) \ > $(MANIFEST) > > > > > Eddy. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make > -- Regards, David Highley Highley Recommended, Inc. Phone: (206) 669-0081 2927 SW 339th Street WEB: http://www.highley-recommended.com Federal Way, WA 98023-7732 _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
