On 7 August 2014 21:55, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > Turns out to be caused by leftovers, from trying an incremental build in > the same tree where I had 2.1 object files. Maybe the makefiles can be > improved to deal gracefully with this case, but as a clean build didn't > suffer from the problem, it's not a showstopper.
That kind of 'deal with changes across time' robustness is difficult, I think. At any rate we don't deal with it at all well in many different aspects of our build system. We don't even guarantee that a make clean/distclean will fix things... thanks -- PMM
