On 27 Feb 2006 at 13:09, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> bk> 3. If I replace the "%.3 : | %.2" rule with the equivalent normal
> bk> rule, make does not hang.
What would the "equivalent normal rule" be? Perhaps I can use that as a
workaround in my
Boris,
On 27 Feb 2006 at 21:13, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> That would be
>
> test.3: | test.2
Ah yes, thanks.
> I think a better workaround would be to remove test.2 from .SECONDARY.
Actually, that case still hangs for me, under both Unix and Windows. Could
you please test that again, being
On 27 Feb 2006 at 13:09, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Dave, can you please file a bug for this on the Savannah site so we
> don't misplace it? Please add the makefile to reproduce it as an
> attachment so we don't lose the formatting.
Done; bug #15919.
-- Dave
I originally reported a make-3.81rc1 hang against the Windows port here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2006-02/msg00058.html
...but I've now tried the test makefile on a different system, and the same
hang occurs, so I believe it's a general make issue. I built and tested
rc1 on
Running under Windows (MSYS), I observe that make built from current CVS
takes about seven times longer to check a large number of dependent files
on an NTFS partition than did beta 4. Sample timing from a 3 GHz machine
using a makefile that assembles a large number of TIFF images into a PDF:
