Re: problems with $(eval include...)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Fabio Alemagna <address@hidden> writes:

  fa> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Paul D. Smith wrote:
  fa> automake uses recursive makefiles, which is something I want to
  fa> avoid.

  >> I wasn't suggesting automake in total, I was suggesting their dependency
  >> generation style only... this is basically what's described on my
  >> website.

  fa> hum... I must have got something wrong, then... Please, clarify
  fa> this: does that method allow for proper handling of autogenerated
  fa> files AND the usage of one single big makefile as opposed to
  fa> multiple recursive makefiles?

Again, I'm not suggesting you use automake.  Whether you can do
non-recursive builds using automake or not, I don't know.

I'm talking _only_ about the dependency generation, which is completely
unrelated to recursion.

  >> The instant you want to start allowing parallel builds, which are
  >> critical for today's software builds and for taking full advantage of
  >> today's hardware, your method is no longer guaranteed to work.

  fa> Isn't there any way to tell make to build exe-deps before any of
  fa> the other prerequisites of exe, even with -jn, n > 1?

Sure.  You specify that the other prerequisites also depend on exe-deps:

  foo: exe-deps foo.o bar.o baz.o
  foo.o bar.o baz.o: exe-deps

  >> I thought you sent me an email saying that using the CVS source, it
  >> worked?

  fa> It works only in some situations, whilst in others it
  fa> segfaults. I'm not quite sure which are those situations yet. I
  fa> have to investigate further.  There's one common behaviour,
  fa> though: in any case, even if there's no segfault, if the file
  fa> doesn't exist make doesn't invoke the rule to generate it, as it
  fa> should instead do.

OK, please file a report as soon as you finish investigating.

  fa> I'm sure I hit an "hidden" and not foreseen feature of $(eval),
  fa> which should be supported though, so to be consistent with the
  fa> general $(eval) semantics.

At this time I'm not prepared to agree with your comment "which should
be supported".  I'll reserve judgment on that until I better understand
the problem and issues involved.

I will agree the core dump is unacceptable behavior, of course.

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