Re: EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2002-11-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Tom Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tr> Sorry about that. I was using 3.79. 3.79.1 appears to do the tr> right thing and looking at the code it has a loop checking for tr> EINTR. 3.80 doesn't have the loop anymore but it does print a tr> message saying that stat was interrupted

RE: A possible bug (or a feature) : dependencies shown in dry-run but not rebuilt

2002-11-14 Thread David Mentre
Hello Mr Smith, > -Original Message- > From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:psmith@;gnu.org] > Sent: mercredi 13 novembre 2002 17:34 > To: David Mentre > dm>Prerequisite `x.h' is newer than target `x.c'. ok > > No, not OK! > > You don't want to specify that the .c file depends o

Re: EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Rodriguez
Sorry about that. I was using 3.79. 3.79.1 appears to do the right thing and looking at the code it has a loop checking for EINTR. 3.80 doesn't have the loop anymore but it does print a message saying that stat was interrupted but it still performs the useless recompilation. It looks like so

Re: EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2002-11-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
Please always include the version of GNU make you're using when reporting problems. I believe this has been fixed in the latest version of GNU make, 3.80. Please try again with that version and let me know. -- --- Paul

EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Rodriguez
I've got a large piece of software, the Java Hotspot Virtual Machine, and we use GNU make for the builds. I've noticed in the past that incremental builds sometime recompile more things than are necessary. Today I hit it again and decided to investigate. Touching 2 .cpp files causing 4-6 files to