It's been years, but I'll throw in my 2 cents in case it helps.
I attempted to make some java stuff build using a makefile and ran into
circular dependency issues: foo.java depended on bar.java & vice-versa.
When I attempted to compile foo.java by itself it complained about
unsatisfied dependencie
On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 21:21 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Smith
> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:55:49 -0500
> >
> > That's not how it works. Order-only prerequisites are considered
> > identically to normal prerequisites in every way except one: after
> > all
> From: Paul Smith
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:49:42 -0500
>
> One way this can be done is by using a recursive invocation of make.
Wouldn't that cause an infinite recursion?
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> From: Paul Smith
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:55:49 -0500
>
> That's not how it works. Order-only prerequisites are considered
> identically to normal prerequisites in every way except one: after all
> the prerequisites, including order-only prerequisites, are brought up
On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 19:55 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Smith
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:00:20 -0500
> >
> > GNU make's internal dependency graph determines the order in which
> > targets are built. It must be acyclical, otherwise make can never
> > choose which target to build
> From: Paul Smith
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:00:20 -0500
>
> GNU make's internal dependency graph determines the order in which
> targets are built. It must be acyclical, otherwise make can never
> choose which target to build before others.
>
> In your example makefile you have a cycle:
>
>
On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 18:35 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I was surprised to see it complain and drop the a.h <- b dependency,
> since it is an order-only dependency. Is this a bug? If not, what
> kind of problems can happen due to such "circular" dependencies?
I don't think it's a bug.
GNU mak
The following short Makefile:
all: b
a.o: a.h
touch a.o
a.h: foo | b
touch a.h
t: a.o
touch t
b: t
touch b
followed by these commands:
touch foo
make
produces:
make: Circular a.h <- b dependency dropped.
touch a.h
touch a.o
touch t
touch b
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