Re: Command Dependecies broken

[Johan Holmberg]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Steven Allen wrote:
>
> Now I could imagine that cons thinks this is a itermediate file and it
> doesn't need to be rebuilt, but it really isn't in this case.  I couldn't
> find anything in the man pages/FAQ stating that intermediate files are not
> rebuilt. And if I say "cons foo.2", then it is no longer an intermediate
> file... It is a target, and the the target has changed!!!!
>

Another alarming example is (using 2.3.0 or the latest CVS):

       $ emacs foo.cpp       # change the source file
       $ cons foo
       cc -c foo.cpp -o foo.o
       cc -o foo foo.o
       $
       $ cp foo.cpp foo      # or any other change to the target
       $ cons foo
       cons.pl: "foo" is up-to-date.
       $

I had no idea that the 2.3.0 (and later) version was so totally
broken.

(I have never used it regurlary)

/Johan Holmberg