On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Steven" == Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> writes: > > Steven> Makefile.in is a mess. One of these days, someone (hi, Tromey) will > Steven> hopefully get annoyed enough with this again to finish some tool to > Steven> auto-generate the dependences list. Until that time, let's try to > Steven> avoid proliferating the messy rules from old files to new ones. > > I'm hoping to talk Dodji into it ;-) > > Seriously, I think the real problem is convincing oneself that the bug > in GNU make has been fixed.
And I think we have no evidence that the bug was unavoidable by the patch in the first place - the patch made no changes relating to the GNU make feature supposedly required for the bug - see what I said in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-05/msg01925.html> about how to approach the change more incrementally, at least get the benefits of whatever changes don't trigger the bug, and if the bug does reappear then understand properly what is required to make it appear. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
