Hello mailing list,
I'm working with rake 0.8.1, and I have a problem with advanced rules as they
are outlined in the documentation. In my case, I try to calculate the name of a
.c file's path from an .o file path:
rule '.o' => [ proc { |p| getCSourcePath(p) } ] do |t|
(do some stuff...)
end
If there is no .o file at all, this works like a charm. The proc will be called
calculating the source file's path, etc.. However, if the .o file exists, the
rule won't be executed anymore, even with the source file having a more recent
timestamp than the object file.
Another thing I noticed is that running rake -P doesn't list the source file as
a prerequisite of the object file at all.
So, to put it in a nutshell, rake only seems to run the proc used to calculate
the source file's path if the rule itself will be executed anyway (which seems
kind of wrong to me, since it should always check the prerequisites).
So, my question is: Do I overlook something obvious, or is this behaviour
intended ?
Thanks in advance, and thanks for writing rake in the first place, it's a great
tool
Tassilo
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