Re: SUFFIXES bug

[Patrick Craig]

"Paul D. Smith" wrote:

> %% Patrick Craig <address@hidden> 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 modify make so that when such an error
>   pc> occurs, instead of failing immediately, it rereads the directory
>   pc> and tries again?
>
> We could... but that largely negates the purpose of the cache, at least
> as make uses it.

But you would only reread the directory when an error condition occured
so Makfiles that worked before wouldn't be affected.

Parick