Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> skribis: > On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 08:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> In this thread: >> >> http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2013-September/006453.html >> >> and specifically in this message and its followups: >> >> http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2013-September/006460.html >> >> there's evidence that GNU Make no longer treats suffix rules with >> prerequisites "as normal files with funny names", as described in the >> manual. >> >> Did the behavior indeed change, and if so, in what version of Make? I >> couldn't find anything in NEWS, FWIW. > > I went back to GNU make 3.74 and I can't find any version that behaves > as the manual documents, including 3.8* or current HEAD. However they > all behave the same way which means that I can't reproduce the problem > described in the gnutls mailing list either. > > Maybe my test makefile has a flaw? > > #---------- > .SUFFIXES: > .SUFFIXES: .x .y .q .r > > .x.y: foo.h ; @echo cp $< $@ > > .q.r: ; @echo cp $< $@ > #---------- > > Then I ran "touch foo.h foo.x foo.q".
Does ‘foo.y’ get rebuilt when you run “touch foo.h”? (I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem myself, but I saw the manual said that what I did should not work.) Ludo’. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
