Re: Cons 2.3.0 bug?

[David Sanderson]

| I seem to have discovered a bug in Cons in multi-target commands.
| I've enclosed a Construct which works properly the first time, but if
| you change 'hello' to 'goodbye' in the Conscript it rebuilds a.c, b.h,
| and c.h, but then stops -- it doesn't rebuild a.exe.
|
| The way this script is SUPPOSED to work is that the first Command
| generates a script foo.bat, which, when run, will generate some source
| code.  The second Command uses foo.bat to generate a.c, and also
| does some other stuff.  This is the Command with the bug.  The final
| Program uses the generated a.c to make a (or a.exe on Win32).

I've seen something like this too, but I haven't yet had a chance to
whittle it down to a non-proprietary test case.  Superficially, the
problem is very like what you describe: it will build everything the
first time, but when you then change a source file it won't propagate
the changes through.  The problem does not exist in cons-2.2.0, which is
what I've reverted to for the time being.

David Sanderson (address@hidden)