On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > =?iso-8859-15?q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <ced...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> Le vendredi 14 décembre 2012 23:02:11, Tom Lane a écrit : >>> $ rm gram.o >>> rm: remove regular file `gram.o'? y >>> $ make >>> make: Nothing to be done for `all'. >>> >>> WTF? > >> A previous patch changed the ".SECONDARY" from an if() section to the main >> section of src/Makefile.global.in, > > Hm. I should have made clear that this isn't specific to gram.o --- > I also tried "rm analyze.o" and that didn't trigger any action either. > So it doesn't seem to be a case of the bison rule chain being > specifically at fault. > > I do suspect that this was triggered by some fairly recent makefile > change, though, because I don't recall having seen anything as odd > as this until recently. >
I can confirm that this happens on Mac OSX as well. I tried a lot of things in the Makefiles to see why the object file is not automatically built even though objfiles.txt is clearly marked as dependent on the OBJS. What I found though that the change Cédric mentioned above might have indeed introduced the problem. So if I comment out .SECONDARY directive in Makefile.global, .o files are rebuilt properly. I saw following in the documentation "When a file is secondary, make will not create the file merely because it does not already exist, but make does not automatically delete the file." (link: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/make-3.79.1/html_chapter/make_10.html#SEC97) Not sure if the .o files are treated as secondary files though. Thanks, Pavan -- Pavan Deolasee http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavandeolasee -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
