On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Evan Martin<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Ben Laurie<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There's a big comment block about five lines below where you made that
>>> modification talking about how to express multiple outputs to make,
>>> along with a link to a discussion of the problem in the make manual.
>>
>> I know. That's where I got this fix from - it's one of the suggestions
>> in the manual :-)
>>
>> What you currently do didn't seem to quite map to their suggestions, though.
>
> Ah, yes, now that I reread it I see you are correct.
>
>>> Really, the problem is that you do not have all the dependencies in
>>> front of make.  The problem you're having is that files A and B
>>
>> Well, no ... it should retry building B because it hasn't been built
>> yet. And, it should try whether I supply D.png or not. Which it does,
>> with my patch.
>
> And again, I am wrong here and you are correct.  Thank you for your
> patience in explaining.  :)

Of course, you are also correct, in that there's a pile of
dependencies make doesn't see - as I think I've said before, I'm a fan
of automatic dependency extraction, which it seems grit could easily
be persuaded to spit out (just as gcc can).

> Let me think about your change some more.

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