On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:49 +0000, Dave Korn wrote:

>   Say, I may have just run into something similar.  Is this directory cache
> used when evaluating $(wildcard ...) by any chance?

Yes.  It's used for all file lookups.

> And is it perhaps not
> flushed after recursively invoking a sub-make?

At the moment, it's NEVER flushed.

Fixing this to be a more sane cache is definitely on the list of things
that needs to be done.

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