On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Raz Manor <raz.ma...@valens.com> wrote: > I created a makefile using instructions for this post: > http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependency-generation/ > > To test it, I make all my files, then deleted one .d file and touched one of > the header files present in that .d file. > > The target, however, was not rebuilt. > > > > Running with -d, I found that the empty rule to make %.d files, ran the > first time the %.d file was needed, in the -include directive. > > Than the target was marked as built by make, so the second time it was > needed, when building the .o file, the empty recipe was not re-run. > > However, since the .d file still didn’t exist, the .o file was not rebuilt. > > > > The author of the article was assuming that if a target is marked as built, > all the target it's their prerequisite will also be rebuilt, regardless of > the actual state of the target. > > Was he mistaken? > > If so, is this a bug, or the intended behavior? > > I this is the intended behavior, how can I achieve the same affect?
I started to try to guess at the problem, but that's a waste of time when you could just copy your test Makefile in to email to the list. Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
