RE: B20.1: make dependencies broken

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Oh.  I must of had my reverse thinking cap on.  Your makefile works for me.
Make version is 3.77.  I tried both Cygwin CD V1.0 and Mingw32 versions.  Both
copied from the /tmp/makeit directory to the /tmp directory after touching
either f1.bat or f2.bat or both.

Earnie.


--- Kevin Wright <kwright@uk.mdis.com> wrote:
> I agree your make file works.  However your makefile lives in the target
> directory and copies files from another directory to the target directory.
> 
> My makefile lives in the source directory and copies files to another
> directory.  This is (I would have thought) the more normal use of make i.e.
> creating a file from a source file and then copying it to an installation
> directory.
> 
> My make file works on 5 different flavours of Unix using gnu make version
> 3.75 and 3.76.1.   It worked on B17 using gnu make 3.75.  It doesn't work on
> B20.1 using gnu make 3.76.1 as supplied with B20.1 binaries.
> 
> Kevin.
> >
> > Hmm...  Is you Makefile example correct?  I redid it like this:
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > NTTOOLSDIR = /tmp
> >
> > NTTOOLS = f1.bat \
> >           f2.bat
> >
> > All: $(NTTOOLS)
> >
> > $(NTTOOLS): % : $(NTTOOLSDIR)/%
> >         # making $@ due to $?
> >         cp $? $@
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > I then did
> >
> > mkdir /tmp/maketest
> > cd /tmp/maketest
> > create above Makefile
> > touch /tmp/f1.bat /tmp/f2.bat
> > make
> >        This gave me the expected results.
> > touch /tmp/f2.bat
> > make
> >        This gave me the expected results.
> > touch /tmp/f1.bat
> > make
> >        This gave me the expected results.
> > make
> >        Everything current, great, that was the expected result.
> > cd ..
> > make -f maketest/Makefile
> >        Everything current, great, that was the expected result.
> >
> > Earnie.
> >
> > --- Kevin Wright <kwright@uk.mdis.com> wrote:
> > > I tried adding
> > > .SUFFIXES: .bat
> > > and it didn't make any difference.
> > >
> > > Kevin.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok.  You problen with .bat is that it is an suffix that isn't a
> > > > default one.
> > > > What happens if you add .SUFFIXES .bat?
> > > >
> > > > Earnie.
> > > >
> > > > I've found the following problem with make on B20.1.
> > > > Try the following makefile:
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > > NTTOOLSDIR = /tmp
> > > >
> > > > NTTOOLS = $(NTTOOLSDIR)/f1.bat \
> > > >           $(NTTOOLSDIR)/f2.bat
> > > >
> > > > All: $(NTTOOLS)
> > > >
> > > > $(NTTOOLS): $(NTTOOLSDIR)/%: %
> > > >
> > > > $(NTTOOLS):
> > > >         # making $@ due to $?
> > > >         cp $? $@
> > > > --------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > now touch f1.bat f2.bat
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > make always reports:
> > > > make: Nothing to be done for `All'.
> > > >
> > > > Removing the .bat extension on f1/f2 fixes the problem.
> > > > Removing the second file from NTTOOLS fixes the problem.
> > > >
> > > > This all worked fine on B17.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using NT4 SP5
> 
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