The make problem

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 05:59:46 EST 2006


Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:56:25PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>>Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It looks like the make problem is not going to be fixed in the next
>>>release of make (and the current release only works because of a bug):
>>>
>>>https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=15584
>>>
>>>I'm afraid I haven't followed carefully enough to know what the problem
>>>is exactly, or how to fix it.
>>
>>I skimmed through the discussion.  I wonder if someone who has a testbed 
>>set up for this could try to find a workaround - first thing to try 
>>would be to disable the empty ".SECONDARY" target in $TOP/mk/suffix.mk.
> 
> 
> Looks like deleting this fixes it.

Thanks Ian, I'll commit the workaround.

Cheers,
	Simon



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