On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:13:20AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>
> The fundamental problem is that the make library finds files by
> implicit path searches (of various kinds) which is inherently wobbly
> no matter how many bandaids are applied.
Especially in large items like libc andthe kernel...
> The robust approach is to change the makefiles to do
>
> .for S in $(SRCS:M*.c)
> $(OBJDIR)/$(S:T:R).o: $(S)
> $(COMPILE.c) $(S) -o $(.TARGET)
> .endfor
I tried to do that (without the actual commands) just to force
the .o file to depend on the relevant .c .S (or .cpp) file.
It would save make doing a lot of stat() calls searching for
the source - and always get the right one when, for example,
libc has a .S file that you don't want.
Unfortunately it all exploded due to the way lex and yacc
generate stuff.
In my case I was still using the commands from the suffix rule.
David
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