On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:30 PM Mohamed Akram
wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I'm not sure why it doesn't just fail immediately
> then, instead of taking a few steps and stumbling on itself.
>
In order to fail early, make would have to assume it knows more than you
do, but it's just a dumb program
l > lang.c
cc -O2 -pipe -ll lang.c -o lang
From: Philip Guenther
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 11:11 AM
To: Mohamed Akram
Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lex implicit rule chain is broken
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 9:07 PM Mohamed Akram
mailto:mohd.ak...@outloo
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 9:07 PM Mohamed Akram
wrote:
> echo "lang: lang.l" > Makefile
>
This Makefile is incorrect, as it tells make that 'lang.l' is a *direct*
dependency of lang. That's not true: lang.l has to be run through lex to
get a .c file that can compiled to get lang.
> It tries to
