On Sep 2, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/02/2013 10:29 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 09/01/2013 07:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>> "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. >> >> Ugh. Does it really have to be this way? > You mean the diagnostics or make's behavior? > > All I says "Deps on dirs" have been an issue ever since and are a latent threat to all manually written make rules. I recall automake once (10yrs+ ago?) was affected by this issue, which had caused automake to introduce using deps on ".dirstamp" files. > > It's just thanks to the fact, other *nices and other OSes' makes have become less common, which lets people forget about this issue. > As long as developers only work with gmake on local filesystems on Linux, they won't ever see trip over this issue. Except that I was using a local filesystem, and saw it anyway. -Philip > >> But surely we can provide a >> better diagnostic. > > Sure ;) > > Ralf > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
