On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Stefan Seefeld ste...@codesourcery.com wrote:
I have run into a situation where GNU make complains about circular
dependencies, where there are none:
...
src.cu.o: %.cu.o: %.cu
�...@echo compiling...
will result in the message:
make: Circular src.cu - src.cu.o dependency dropped.
compiling...
When I replace '.cu' by '.cc', the warning / error message goes away.
It also goes away if I disable builtin rules (via -r).
Can you please confirm whether this is a GNU make bug, or user error ?
User error. Generating ${base}.o from ${base} (where base=src.cu in
this case) is a reverse of the normal logic that ${base} is the
executable generated from ${base}.o. So make is correct: there is
circular dependency.
The correct thing to do is not use the .o suffix in a way that
conflicts with the precedents going back to Unix version 7.
For example, instead of using .cu.o and .cu, use .cuo and .cu.
Philip Guenther
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