On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Bug#756123: chained implicit rule can
> fail to make a prerequisite [and 1 more messages]"):
>> In that case, I shall forward this bug report upstream, to see
>> if we can get help in identifying the patch that fixed the issue (there
>> ight not be a simpe set of commits that I might be able to backport,
>> though). Even if we do find the fixes, we would still need to talk to
>> the SRM team to see if this can be backported into stable.
>
> Right. I am prepared to try to properly debug this in 3.81, but I
> haven't ever looked at the code inside make so I would need some help
> for that to be a viable strategy.
> I could also bisect if there's a bisectable git history somewhere.
The upstream git repository is at:
git://git.sv.gnu.org/make.git
The debian tree is atL
git.debian.org/~srivasta/public_git/debian/make-dfsg.git
I use the upstream git repo locally to cherry-pick fxes, so I
think that bisecting might work.
>> I am traveling until Friday, and so will deal with this when I
>> get back.
>
> Thanks. To be honest, while this bug seems pretty strange, I doubt it
> can be very critical in the grand scheme of things. From the point of
> view of a stable update, it might be better to leave everyone with the
> bugs they have rather than try to patch this - unless the fix is very
> very obviously correct.
>
> So I won't be upset if you don't want to put more effort into this
> bug.
I am going to forward this upstream anyway, and I suspect it
will be closed, but perhaps with a pointer to the issue or patch that
fixed the race condition. The new upstream report is at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?42910
manoj
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