bug-make@gnu.org
Hello -
I believe I have found a bug in the online Internet web pages for "make".
I am looking at
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#How-Make-Works
I see the following two paragraphs, each of which has the same basic error:
"Before recompiling an object file, make considers updating its
prerequisites,
the source file and header files. This makefile does not specify
anything to
be done for them--the '.c' and '.h' files are not the targets of any
rules--so
make does nothing for these files. But make would update
automatically generated
C programs, such as those made by Bison or Yacc, by their own rules
at this time."
and
"After recompiling whichever object files need it, make decides
whether to relink
edit. This must be done if the file edit does not exist, or if any
of the object
files are newer than it. If an object file was just recompiled, it
is now newer
than edit, so edit is relinked. "
The Problem is: The system does NOT "recompile an object file"
The system compiles and/or recompiles source code files.
I suggest that you change the wording to say something to the effect of:
... when the system recompiles source files or relinks requisite
object files in order to generate a new object file ..."
--
Terry McCarty
3...@comcast.net
wa5nti
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