On 2021-06-02 00:56, Karl Berry wrote:
Hi Johan,
make --dry-run --always-make
I'm somehow amazed these two options work together at all. They seem
mutually unintelligible. In any case, it's the first time I've heard of
this, so I don't have a best (or any) practice to suggest. Sorry.
Maybe someone else here has some ideas.
Thanks for the reply. It turs out that things are even a bit worse.
I realized that it is actually enough to just have the "--always-make"
option in order to throw make into an endless loop with autotools
generated makefiles.
To avoid any issues that might exist in my setup I tried this by
rebuilding "make" itself from source from a couple of different versions
including the latest 4.3 version of make.
Some older versions of make (e.g. make v4.0) have different types of
issues
with "--always-make" which makes it fail in slightly other ways but all
versions displays this looping behavior.
So I beleive the conclusion here is that "--always-make" is not really
compatible
with autotools at the moment (or perhaps self-referential makefiles in
general?)
/J
