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Re: how to make dirs without races
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Reinier Post |
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Re: how to make dirs without races |
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Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:34:24 +0100 |
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On Mon Mar 4 19:35:37 2013, address@hidden (Mark Galeck) wrote:
> Well, implicit chain does not work because of what Paul says in
> the manual:
>
> "No single implicit rule can appear more than once in a chain. This
> means that make will not even consider such a ridiculous thing as making
> foo from foo.o.o by running the linker twice. This constraint has
> the added benefit of preventing any infinite loop in the search for
> an implicit rule chain"
I use a patch that adds an -M option to disable this restriction:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=21887
Discussed here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30381
Since I wrote it, I've been looking for use cases
other than my own. They seem to be pretty rare.
On the other hand, the patch is rather simple;
it may even make pattern rules easier to understand.
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Reinier Post
TU Eindhoven