Re: GNU make problem

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Anderson, Craig" <address@hidden> writes:

  ac> I have a makefile that exhibits a strange error
  ac> If I run make -B (always build), it loops, rebuilding the .dep files.
 
  ac> I have isolated the problem to a simple test case, which is provided as
  ac> an attached gzipped tarball.
 
  ac> I think this is a bug with version 3.80, but it could be an error
  ac> of my doing

Erm, well, it's kind of a bug and kind of not.  GNU make is doing just
as it's been documented to do, it's just that it doesn't work very well
for re-execed makefiles.


Try the beta for the next version of GNU make, which can be found here:

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81beta3.tar.gz

and see if that works better.

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