Re: builddir vs. srcdir

[Harald Dunkel]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:

foo.c foo.h : $(srcdir)/foo.list $(PARSE_LIST)
        $(PARSE_LIST) $(srcdir)/foo.list foo.h foo.c    \
          || (rm -f foo.c foo.h ; exit 1)

This rule can break with parallel make.
You can solve the second issue by adding the dependency:
foo.c: foo.h
Whats about a more general case
SOMEFILES=a b c d e
$(SOMEFILES): srcfile
        buildsomehow srcfile $(SOMEFILES) || (rm -f $(SOMEFILES); false)
???

Regards
Harri