libxenstore.so dependency ignored by make 3.82

2012-02-22 Thread Olaf Hering
Hello, after the recent addition of the 'init-xenstore-domain' target the build of tools/xenstore fails randomly with make 3.82 as shipped with openSuSE 11.4 and 12.1. init-xenstore-domain requires libxenstore.so for linking, and this dependency is listed as a prereq in init-xenstore-domain tar

Re: Trigger missing dependencies by changing order of execution?

2012-02-28 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Feb 28, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a Makefile: > > | a.out: > | sleep 3 > | touch a.out a1 > | > | b.out: > | cat a1 > b.out > | > | c.out: a.out b.out > | cat a.out b.out > c.out > > "make c.out" will /usually/ succeed, as the commands for > a.out a

soring of intput files

2014-11-18 Thread Olaf Hering
I wonder if make will sort files during expansion, or if it uses the readdir result as is without sorting the files. In other words, will the following example result in the very same content not matter how the files are layed out on disk? DOC_HTML := $(patsubst %.markdown,html/%.html,$(MARKDOWN

Re: soring of intput files

2014-11-19 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 19, Paul Smith wrote: > You don't show how the values of the individual variables like > MARKDOWNSRC-y etc. are obtained, so we can't say anything about the > order of those values. However whatever order they have will be > preserved by the above statement. They are obtained with a

Re: soring of intput files

2014-11-19 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 19, Etan Reisner wrote: > The output from the wildcard function was sorted in make 3.81 (and > earlier as far as I know). > > This stopped being true in make 3.82 (listed as a backwards > incompatible change with the suggestion to use the sort function if > you need that behaviour).