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bug #31400: Make 3.82 incorrectly handles circular dependency chains (3.81 regression)

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Submitted on:  Thu 21 Oct 2010 07:08:10 PM UTC  
 
Severity: 3 - NormalItem Group: Bug
Status: DuplicatePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed
Component Version: 3.82Operating System: POSIX-Based
Fixed Release: NoneTriage Status: None

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Mon 10 Sep 2012 02:52:19 AM UTC, comment #1:

This bug is no longer present in the current CVS build of GNU make.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Thu 21 Oct 2010 07:08:10 PM UTC, original submission:

I have a makefile library which contains a large number of circular dependencies of the form

%.flac : %.wav
...
%.wav : %.flac
...

The idea being that if I have a file e.g. 'test.tta', and run 'make test.flac', it will pick the series of rules %.wav : %.tta followed by %.flac : %.wav

This used to work in Make 3.81; it stopped working in 3.82. I have put together a simple test case:

Makefile:

Commands:

The corresponding output with make 3.81 is

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