On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM, anonymous <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > There are some side effects associated with intermediate/secondary targets > that aren't documented in any real detail in the documentation. > > The documentation for .SECONDARY gives the impression you can use .SECONDARY > to disable automatic deletion of intermediate targets, but doing so causes a > number of side effects that produce unpredictable behavior in a build. > > Unfortunately, I do not have a concise or publishable example demonstrating > the problem; however, I outlined it on this thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.utils.bug/browse_frm/thread/d882703f60b20ea5?hl=en#
To confirm, when you say "thread", you mean "my single post", right? I want to be sure that link isn't leaving off replies or something... That said, your post references rules that build symlinks to other files...and then you leave out important details of the cases that cause problems. If you don't have the time to find a minimal test case, can you at least spend the time to figure out the conditions under which the problem occurs? If not, how are we, who don't have access to your system, supposed to figure that out? You might get lucky...or you might just be pissing into the wind. So: does the problem only occur when the symlink already exists? Or when the symlink *doesn't* exist? Is this a recursive make setup? If so, which makefiles have which rules? How can we debug this when you don't provide *ANY* examples of a rule for building one of those symlinks? As for issue problem with .PRECIOUS, well, it works with patterns for me; please provide an actual example. Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
