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Re: automake/373: race condition with subdir objects:
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From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
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Re: automake/373: race condition with subdir objects: |
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Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:27:47 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
Robert> the following will break on distclean aith automake 1.7.5:
Robert> Makefile.am:
Robert> SUBDIRS=a
Robert> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects
Robert> bin_PROGRAMS=foo
Robert> foo_SOURCES=a/foo.cc
Robert> a/Makefile.am
Robert> bin_PROGRAMS=bar
Robert> bar_SOURCES=bar.cc
Robert> The failure is because subdirs are distcleaned first, and a/.deps is rm
Robert> -rf'd before the top level makefile runs.
Robert> Possible solutions include:
Robert> distclean prefix first, not postfix.
Robert> change the distclean process to not rm -rf the .deps dir.
Robert> I don't have time to hack up a test case just yet... sorry.
Robert> Cheers,
Robert> Rob
This is PR/373. I'm quoting your full mail for Gnats and put you
into the CC: list of the PR.
Changing the cleaning order will not work: the symmetric problem
also exists (see the comments in lib/am/subdirs.am before the
definition of distclean-recursive).
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz