New submission from Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I usually build Python directly in my source repository (the directory containing the configure script). Accordingly, I have .o files scattered throughout my sandbox.
Today I decided to build --with-pydebug, so I created a debug directory, then ran ../configure from within that directory, giving the arguments I wanted. When I ran make it croaked with a link error linking pgen. The linker complained that tokenizer_pgen.o and pgenmain.o weren't found. Messing around with make -d I figured out that when make ran it concluded that Parser/pgenmain.o didn't need to be rebuilt. It thought that ../Parser/pgenmain.o satisfied the dependency for Parser/pgenmain.o. I don't know if this is a problem with GNU make's VPATH processing or with the dependency specification in Python's makefile. I can work around the problem by avoiding builds directly in my sandbox but it would be nice if this worked. (I'm experiencing a sense of deja vu. Perhaps I've reported this problem sometime in the dim, dark past, but I can't find anything searching for either "VPATH" or "makefile".) ---------- components: Build messages: 70998 nosy: skip.montanaro severity: normal status: open title: Problem with pgen make dependencies in certain circumstances versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3539> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
