Re: [3.81] Possible parallelizing bug in combination with multiple-target pattern rules

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Christoph,

Christoph Schulz <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I've found a bug in GNU make. When a pattern rule with multiple
> targets exists, and make determines that it needs that rule to built one
> matching target, it uses this rule even if the other targets implicitly
> built by this rule don't have their dependencies built yet.

Hm, it seems make needs to also consider dependencies from the also_make
chain when evaluating a rule. I don't see it being done right now. Can
you please file a bug report at

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=make

and include all the details and the test case. Thanks!


-boris



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