"Paul Smith wrote:" > > On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 10:23 -0700, David Highley wrote: > > 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. > > I'd be really interested to know whether the current latest release of > GNU make (3.82) has this problem or not.
The latest version of Fedora 13 does not have a 3.82 verion of make so the only way to test would be to build from source which I can do. It may take me a while since were pretty busy right now. > > If not I'll need to go dig up the SRPM for that version of GNU make from > Red Hat and find out what patches they've installed. > > > > That's the issue, things used to work reliably. Now we seem to accept > > > that they work most of the time. > > Can you clarify what you mean by "used to work reliably"? With which > version? The directory caching stuff predates my involvement with GNU > make, so it's at least 15 years old. I think Red Hat 3 Update 8 Taroon had version 3.79-1-17.1 of make. Which means there are likely many changes since that time. It appears that the latest version of make for Cygwin is 3.81-2 which still fails for us. So the fix maybe narrowed into a change between 3.81-2 and 3.81-3. Do we know if anyone is working on a newer update for Cygwin? Paul has it really only been 15 years. I though our discussions went back to 1995 or so when you were working a Bay Networks. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
