bug report

[Goran V.]

I wrote a makefile with

$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.html \
$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.js   \
$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.css  \
$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.svg  \
$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.ico:
        @echo -n "$(FRONTEND) - building $@"
        @$(MD) $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)
        @cp $(FRONTEND)/$(@F) $@
        @echo " ...done"

.PHONY:
login: $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/login.html \
       $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/login.js $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/options.js
$(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/node.js \
       $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/login.css $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/common.css \
       $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/logo.svg \
       $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/favicon.ico
        @echo -n "$(FRONTEND) - building login"
        @echo " ...done"

I get no errors but only if I repeat the command 3 times (3 files with
same prefix) I got the result.

q@odysseus:~/ff$ make login
frontend - building build/frontend/login.html ...done
frontend - building build/frontend/options.js ...done
frontend - building build/frontend/node.js ...done
frontend - building build/frontend/common.css ...done
frontend - building build/frontend/logo.svg ...done
frontend - building build/frontend/favicon.ico ...done
frontend - building login ...done
q@odysseus:~/ff$ make login
frontend - building build/frontend/login.js ...done
frontend - building login ...done
q@odysseus:~/ff$ make login
frontend - building build/frontend/login.css ...done
frontend - building login ...done

With help and instructions from ##workingsets I got further to

make -k -d login
   Successfully remade target file `build/foo/login.html'.
   Considering target file `build/foo/login.js'.
   File `build/foo/login.js' was considered already.

but `build/foo/login.js' was NOT considered already.

Any hints? Is this a feature or a bug?

Thanks
Goran