Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62...@gmail.com> writes: > You seem to be recording the names tried during a path search instead of the > files that actually exist. That will not work because make requires every > listed dependency of a target to exist.
Yes, that is exactly what I am doing, based on the following quote from (automake-history)Recommendations for Tool Writers: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Finally, the tool should generate a dependency for each probe, instead of each successful file open, in order to avoid the duplicated new header bug. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I probably misunderstood it. I will re-read the chapter 2 and try again. > A crazy option occurs to me, but I think it only works in GNU make: > $(wildcard > ...) effectively filters a list of files to only those that actually exist. I am still at least trying to stick to POSIX make, but will keep this as an option, thank you. :) > [..] > > Just my guesses towards a solution, Thank you, it is much appreciated. ^_^ Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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