OK, I got it. I used .SECONDARY instead of .PRECIOUS to preserve the .d and .o files. I did it because I still wanted files to be deleted if they were stopped mid-build. Is there a way to get both of the behaviors?
Also, while debugging I made a mistake not to -include the .d files, but they were still a precious dependency of the .o files, and there was the %.d: ; rule to 'make' them. That made the .o to still not rebuild because the .d file was not built. Why was that? Anyway, these are all nice-to-have problems. My main problem was solved. Thanks a lot for all your help. Peace and love, Raz -----Original Message----- From: Paul Smith [mailto:psm...@gnu.org] Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 5:54 PM To: Raz Manor <raz.ma...@valens.com>; bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: Non existing target not marked as new On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 08:16 +0000, Raz Manor wrote: > Unfortunately I can't send you my makefile as it gives up company IP. I wasn't suggesting you send your makefile: we don't have the time or energy to understand and debug an entire make environment :). I was suggesting you create a small sample that reproduces the problem you're seeing and send that. I tried to create a repro case based on your description but it worked fine for me with both GNU make 4.1 and 4.2.1: $ mkdir -p build/common/tests ../common/tests $ echo 'int main() { return 0; }' > ../common/tests/timer_test.cpp $ cat Makefile all: build/common/tests/timer_test build/common/tests/timer_test: build/common/tests/timer_test.o # ----- DEPFLAGS = -MT $@ -MMD -MP -MF $(@:.o=.Td) COMPILE.cc = $(CXX) $(DEPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -c POSTCOMPILE = mv -f $(@:.o=.Td) $(@:.o=.d) build/% : build/%.o $(LINK.cc) -o $@ $^ build/common/%.o : ../common/%.cpp build/common/%.d $(COMPILE.cc) $(OUTPUT_OPTION) $< $(POSTCOMPILE) build/common/%.d: ; .PRECIOUS: build/common/%.d -include build/common/tests/timer_test.d $ make -r g++ -MT build/common/tests/timer_test.o -MMD -MP -MF g++ build/common/tests/timer_test.Td \ -c -o build/common/tests/timer_test.o ../common/tests/timer_test.cpp mv -f build/common/tests/timer_test.Td build/common/tests/timer_test.d g++ -o build/common/tests/timer_test build/common/tests/timer_test.o $ make -r make: Nothing to be done for 'all'. $ rm -f build/common/tests/timer_test.d $ make -r g++ -MT build/common/tests/timer_test.o -MMD -MP -MF g++ build/common/tests/timer_test.Td \ -c -o build/common/tests/timer_test.o ../common/tests/timer_test.cpp mv -f build/common/tests/timer_test.Td build/common/tests/timer_test.d g++ -o build/common/tests/timer_test build/common/tests/timer_test.o _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
