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bug #37708: File rules compare wrong own timestamps

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 10 Nov 2012 06:18:16 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  Not A Bug Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  3.81 Operating System:  POSIX-Based
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Sun 13 Jan 2013 08:19:32 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This is not technically a bug... or if it is it's a duplicate of the directory cache issue.  Your makefile is not being honest with make: as far as your makefile is concerned, there is no way for the file "depended_real_file" to ever be updated.  Thus, make does some shortcuts to improve performance.

However, because your makefile really does change the time of "depended_real_file" behind make's back (as a hidden side-effect of updating "depended_remake_always"), things don't work well.

I suspect that what you want to do could be more straightforwardly done but there's not enough detail here to know for sure; if you want help please email -email is unavailable- rather than using the bug tracker.

If you change your makefile such that you give commands to the "depended_real_file" target, even if they're empty, then make will re-check the timestamp because it thinks maybe something changed; then your makefile will work (always rebuilds main):


depended_real_file: depended_remake_always ; @:


Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Sat 10 Nov 2012 06:18:16 PM UTC, original submission:  

Have test makefile:

.SILENT:
.PHONY: depended_remake_always

all : depended_remake_always main
depended_remake_always :
if [ \( ! -e ./depended_real_file \) -o \( ./depended -nt ./depended_real_file \) ]; then \
    touch depended_real_file; \
    echo depended_real_file remade; \
  fi
depended_real_file: depended_remake_always
#
main: depended_real_file
echo "about to do main"
touch main

in command line
touch depended
make -f test.mak main

doesn't proceed rule main while depended_remake_always made. It happens because timestamps of main and depended_real_file compared on wrong stage: namely BEFORE depended_real_file rule FULLY executes.

As workaround
touch depended
make -f test.mak all
works as it should

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