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From: | Martin Dorey |
Subject: | RE: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching |
Date: | Thu, 6 Oct 2016 19:01:43 +0000 |
I can reproduce it too: address@hidden:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ rm -f target*; ~/download/make-git/make
touch target1 touch target2 touch target3 touch target4 touch target5 touch target6 touch target7 touch target8 touch target9 touch target10 glob: address@hidden:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ make --version GNU Make 4.2.1 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. address@hidden:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ That was built from git a few seconds ago. address@hidden:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ uname -a Linux swiftboat 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux address@hidden:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ Local ext4 storage. I was surprised. I thought I'd deduced from its behavior that make updated the cache for the targets it thinks it's created as it creates them, thus circumventing
the OP's oddly peremptory insistence that you check the directory mtime. (Perhaps there was some history that explains the tone but, although the Subject looks like it was a follow-up, the mail doesn't seem to be a reply to anything I remember or that I've
been able to find.) I had wondered if I'd misunderstood when the $(wildcard) is evaluated, but $(error) there goes off when the recipe is executed, not when it's parsed. From: Bug-make [mailto:bug-make-bounces+address@hidden
On Behalf Of Kyle Rose On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
Funny you should mention that: 4.2.1 definitely broken, at least on my system.
What does POSIX have to say about returning the wrong value for $(wildcard ...)?
Consistency may be desirable in general, but correctness in my environments (mainly Linux and OS X) is more desirable for me. Given the various ifdefs around Windows, for instance, there's already no guarantee
of consistency of behavior across OSes, so I'm not really convinced by that argument. In any event, the existing behavior is a flat-out defect and should be corrected. Kyle |
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