Bug 2074 - make-3.77-5 misses dependencies that worked fine with make-3.76.1-5
Summary: make-3.77-5 misses dependencies that worked fine with make-3.76.1-5
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: make
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-04-09 01:08 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 1999-12-03 18:43:48 UTC
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Makefile that demonstrates the problem (run make -j). (144 bytes, text/plain)
1999-12-03 17:32 UTC, Aleksey Nogin 		no flags Details
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Description Aleksey Nogin 1999-04-09 01:08:20 UTC 
When I use something like

---
all:
	...

include Makefile.dep

Makefile.dep: mk/config
	@touch Makefile.dep
	@$(MAKE) depend

depend: $(GENERATED_C_FILES)
	...

---
it was working fine with make-3.76.1-5 (RedHat 5.2), but
with make-3.77-5 (RedHat 5.9 SRPM compiled on RedHat 5.2)
"make all" seems to ignore dependencies that end up in
Makefile.dep
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-04-09 14:37:59 UTC 
Have you tried moving the include Makefile.dep after the
other 2 rules?
Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 1999-04-10 02:56:59 UTC 
Oh, sorry, I didn't describe my Makefile accurately enough. In fact
"include Makefile.dep" does go after the rules. To describe it even
more accurately, in my Makefile I have

include $(ROOT)/mk/rules
include Makefile.dep

and mk/rules has the rules for Makefile.dep and for depend.
Comment 3 Brian Ryner 1999-04-13 18:39:59 UTC 
From what I understand, make v3.77 has some brokenness issues with the
wildcard function.  It might not be a bad idea to return to the
previous 3.76 version.
Comment 4 Preston Brown 1999-04-13 21:02:59 UTC 
Cristian:  should we revert?  A broken make in the distrib would be a
very bad thing.
Comment 5 Aleksey Nogin 1999-11-16 23:05:59 UTC 
As far as I know, this problem still exists in RH 6.1
Comment 6 Aleksey Nogin 1999-11-22 23:20:59 UTC 
As James Amundson <amundson> (reporter of bug #7079) suggested, I tried
make 3.78.1. It does not seem to have this problem
Comment 7 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-03 16:36:59 UTC 
Can you send a self contained example that demonstrates the problem? Without
a concrete example, we're probably never going to be able to close this bug :-)
Comment 8 Aleksey Nogin 1999-12-03 17:32:59 UTC 
Created attachment 22 [details]
Makefile that demonstrates the problem (run make -j).
Comment 9 Aleksey Nogin 1999-12-03 17:45:59 UTC 
If you run make, using the Makefile I've just attached, you'll get "This make
works correctly" printed. However, if you run "make -j", then you'll get "This
make works correctly" only from make-3.76.1, but not make-3.77. I haven't tested
this example with make 3.78.1, but I believe it should work.
Comment 10 Aleksey Nogin 1999-12-03 18:06:59 UTC 
I tired make-3.78.1-1 from RawHide, it worked fine (on the test example).
Comment 11 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-03 18:41:59 UTC 
Does "worked fine" mean I can close the bug or does it mean that the test case
exhibits the problem?
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