Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

[Kyle Rose]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Martin Dorey <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

Glad to know it's not just me.
 

(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.)

This thread is my first post here: it was a follow-up to some messages on related topics in the archives. E.g.:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2015-02/msg00012.html

I found this bug in the process of tracking down behavior I couldn't explain with a much more complicated makefile setup. I desired a small reproducer to demonstrate the behavior publicly, which turned out to be entirely straightforward.

 

Kyle