On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:53:45PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> .y.out uses a constant filename (y.tab.c) as an intermediate file. If
> make -j decided to compile two .y files in the same directory at the
> same time, one's going to get overwritten. .l.out avoids this by using
> ${.PREFIX}, which expands to the filename of the source file minus path
> and extension. .y.out could be made safe by making the first line
>
> ${YACC} ${YFLAGS} -o ${.PREFIX}.y.tmp.c ${.IMPSRC}
>
> and replacing y.tab.c. with ${.PREFIX}.y.tmp.c . For good measure,
> .l.out should probably be using ${.PREFIX}.l.tmp.c, just so you can
> tell which rule generated a particular tempfile.
Ah, that does paint it succinctly. If your suggestion is sound,
should it be perhaps submitted as a PR to make 'make' even safer
by default?
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