On 09/02/2013 01:44 PM, Petr Machata wrote:
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I guess, no. AFAIS, this makefile carries deps on directories.
This is a very old known general limitation of and portability isse
with make and one of known "donts".
"Deps on dirs" work on local Linux file systems, but doesn't work on
linux nfs and is known to not have worked with local files systems on
other *nices.
Apparently, Linux just joined the ranks of "other *nices"--I can
reproduce the problem on local filesystems just fine. I didn't know
it's a "don't", thanks for pointing this out.
Well, maybe my recollection was correct. Many years ago, I got burried
in "deps on dirs" issues and am avoiding them since then ;)
However, I recall another case, "deps on dirs" often don't work:
(massively) "parallel make".
Did you try to build the package single-threaded (make -j1)?
The "old school" automake approach (ca. 20 years old) to avoid such
issues was to not use "deps in dirs", but to create dirs as side-effect
of files.
The "new school" automake approach (ca. 10 years old) to avoid such
issue is to use deps on dirstamp-files.
Ralf
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