URL:
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Summary: pattern rule chains give misleading error message
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Sat 17 Sep 2011 01:33:01 AM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Bug
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 3.82
Operating System: None
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
I suspect this is a known issue but if you have a chain of pattern rules, and
a missing file at the bottom end of the chain, make doesn't tell you whats
going on but instead reports that there is 'no rule to make foo.built'. Using
static pattern rules instead of general pattern rules hides the problem but it
seems that make should be able to give a clue about what is going on without
this, or at least not say that the rule doesn't exist when in fact its a
dependency further down the chain that is missing.
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