URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42910>
Summary: chained implicit rule can fail to make a
prerequisite
Project: make
Submitted by: srivasta
Submitted on: Mon 04 Aug 2014 04:25:37 PM CDT
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Bug
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 3.81
Operating System: POSIX-Based
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
Gi,
This was reported by a Debian user. Please retain a CC to
756123-forwar...@bugs.debian.org so that the Debian BTS has a record of this
issue.
Please note that I have been unable top reproduce this with 4.0.X versiosn
of make, so this issue may have been resolved. It would help if we knew what
the fix wwas, and any information that helps us backport it to Debian stable
would be appreciated.
have a Makefile where make appears to decide to use the 2nd of a
pair of chained implicit rules to construct a file, despite having earlier
rejected this same pair of rules when deciding whether to build the necessasry
intermediate file.
As a result, make can run the rules for the 2nd implicit rule despite the fact
that one of its prerequisites has not been built. The ommands for the 2nd
rule then fail.
To reproduce:
Firstly, preparation:
$ git clone git://git.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/adns.git
[ usual output from git clone ]
$ cd adns
$ git checkout make-bug.2014-07-26
[ warning about git about detached HEAD ]
$ ./configure
$ make
[ build should complete successfully ]
$ cd regress
Now repeat the following steps until you lose the race like this:
$ touch ../src/addrfam.c
$ make -j2
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wcast-qual -Wpointer-arith -Wno-pointer-sign -I../src -I. -I./../src
-DADNS_REGRESS_TEST -I. -c -g -o addrfam_d.o ../src/addrfam.c
gcc adnstest_c.o hrecord.o hcommon.o types_d.o event_d.o query_d.o
reply_d.o general_d.o setup_d.o transmit_d.o parse_d.o poll_d.o check_d.o
addrfam_d.o -o adnstest_record
gcc: error: adnstest_c.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [adnstest_record] Error 1
$
(If you win the race it rebuilds adnstest_c.o again.)
Detailed consideration of the manual node `Implicit Rule Search'
suggests that the Makefile is correct by virtue of para.6: while the
intermediate file adnstest_c.o does not exist, and is not mentioned as a
target or explicit prerequisite, it can be made.
So make is correct to try to use this rule. But of course it ought to
construct the file first.
The bug occurs only with nontrivial -j options. I have reproduced it with -j4
and (as here) -j2.
I have also, once, seen it do this:
regress$ touch ../src/addrfam.c; make -j adnstest_record
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wcast-qual -Wpointer-arith -Wno-pointer-sign -I../src -I. -I./../src
-DADNS_REGRESS_TEST -I. -c -g -o addrfam_d.o ../src/addrfam.c
regress$
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