v. 3.78.1: prerequisites for .DEFAULT target seem to be ignored

2001-05-10 Thread Matt G.
Version/Platform: 0 homer@quaternion:foo 02:22:04> make --version GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu Problem: Prerequisites for the .DEFAULT target seem to be ignored. I've included a sample Makefile exhibiting the problem & the o

Re: SUFFIXES bug

2001-05-10 Thread Patrick Craig
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > %% Patrick Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pc> I can understand using the directory caching feature to improve > pc> performance, but it seems that this feature does cause users some > pc> problems. Couldn't you modify make so that when such an error > pc> o

Re: SUFFIXES bug

2001-05-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Patrick Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pc> I can understand using the directory caching feature to improve pc> performance, but it seems that this feature does cause users some pc> problems. Couldn't you modify make so that when such an error pc> occurs, instead of failing immediate

Re: SUFFIXES bug

2001-05-10 Thread Patrick Craig
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > This doesn't have anything to do with suffixes; you could get the same > behavior in other ways. > > The issue is GNU make's directory cache feature. > > When GNU make first needs to find a file in a directory it caches the > contents internally. Then as it runs rules wh

gmake enhancement request for include directive (3.79.1)

2001-05-10 Thread Sandy Currier
Title: gmake enhancement request for include directive (3.79.1) Hi Paul (or whomever may read this - I hope someone does!), A couple years ago I exchanged email with you (Paul Smith) regarding a couple make enhancements.  At the time I was hoping for a little bit of clearmake functionality

Intermediate file woes

2001-05-10 Thread tom_honermann
Running GNU Make 3.79.1 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 system I've got two issues: 1) Explicit intermediate files (Those listed as pre-reqs of .INTERMEDIATE) will get deleted even if make did not create them. This is not-consistant with how make deals with non-explicit intermediate files. Here's an exa

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