> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:30:12 -0400
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -cmp.$(OBJEXT) diff3.$(OBJECT) diff.$(OBJECT) sdiff.$(OBJECT): paths.h
> +cmp.$(OBJEXT) diff3.$(OBJEXT) diff.$(OBJEXT) sdiff.$(OBJEXT): paths.h
Wow, thanks. I had to look at that fix twice before I saw the cha
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:30, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Never mind all that debugging. Make is behaving perfectly. It's a bug
> in Makefile.am.
>
>
>
> --- Makefile.am-dist 2002-10-14 11:29:10.0 -0400
> +++ Makefile.am 2002-10-14 11:29:25.0 -0400
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>
Never mind all that debugging. Make is behaving perfectly. It's a bug
in Makefile.am.
--- Makefile.am-dist2002-10-14 11:29:10.0 -0400
+++ Makefile.am 2002-10-14 11:29:25.0 -0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
MOSTLYCLEANFILES = paths.h
-cmp.$(OBJEXT) diff3.$(OBJECT) diff.$(OBJECT)
%% Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cb> Hi, I've attached the output of a failed run with
cb> --debug=jobs. Hope this is some help.
Hm. This does make it look like a bug in make, that's for sure:
cb> Putting child 0x08079e40 (paths.h) PID 13898 on the chain.
...
cb> Ob
Hi, I've attached the output of a failed run with --debug=jobs. Hope this is
some help.
diffutils-2.8.4/config/config.guess
diffutils-2.8.4/config/config.rpath
diffutils-2.8.4/config/config.sub
diffutils-2.8.4/config/depcomp
diffutils-2.8.4/config/install-sh
diffutils-2.8.4/config/mdate-sh
diff
%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pe> It does smell like a 'make' bug to me, though I suppose it could
pe> be a kernel or shell bug too. Can you please try the following
pe> things?
pe> My suspicion is that your "make" is mishandling these dependencies:
pe> cmp.o diff3.o d
> From: Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:43:51 +0100
> make 3.79.1. bash 2.05a.
>
> I've been testing some more. I have only seen the problem at make
> -j5 or -j6. Even then its intermittent. I tried it on 2
> computers. It doesn't show up at all on a p3-700, on
Please try the latest version, 3.80. There is a change in this version
which _might_ have some bearing on this problem.
If that doesn't help, we will have to do some more debugging; I don't
have any good ideas offhand how a bug in make could manifest this
behavior.
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On Sunday 13 October 2002 7:40 pm, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
> Sorry, I don't get it. () and {;} are formally identical in this
> context. Perhaps {;} works around the bug in some cases, but I don't
> see how it could be a reliable fix for the problem.
My mistake, I thought they were handled differe
> From: Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:03:42 +0100
>
> Hi, theres a bug in src/Makefile.in/am. It does:
>
> paths.h:
> (echo '#define DEFAULT_DIFF_PROGRAM "$(bindir)/'`echo diff|sed
> '$(transform)'`'"' && \
> echo '#define LOCALEDIR "$
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