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

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

SUFFIXES bug

2001-05-07 Thread Patrick Craig
Hello I'm using: GNU Make version 3.79.1 Built for i686-pc-cygwin My project has some autogenerated C files. I use a different suffix for these files (.agc) so that I can delete them in the clean rule (rm -f *.agc). Here is a simplified Makefile: .SUFFIXES: .agc all::boot test.o boot:: cp t