On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Eddy Petrișor <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem I had was on such a compiler where the temporary files had
> totally random filenames.
>
> This was a no go for me. Are you in a similar situation?

What kind of temporary files are these? Some programs, like ar, write
to a temporary file for the output, but then move that randomly named
temporary file to the non-randomly named output file. Tup tracks this
and disregards the temporary file as an output. However, if you run a
program that writes to a different random file each time you run it
(not as an intermediate file, but as an output), that is by definition
not an idempotent build step. It's possible tup could support this by
allowing unknown outputs if the Tupfile has a <group> in the output
list, but it doesn't currently.

-Mike

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