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Date:      Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:28:50 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Cc:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 11.0 -r301815 to -r310873 using WITH_META_MODE=yes : an empty filename failure
Message-ID:  <99ee7f26-573f-2aeb-c569-728602bb3593@FreeBSD.org>
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On 6/13/16 8:18 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> ${_FIRM}: ${.CURDIR}/../../../../contrib/dev/drm2/radeonkmsfw/${_FIRM}.uu
>>>>         uudecode -p $? > ${.TARGET}
> 
> Targets like this that use $? or ${.OODATE} are a bad fit with META mode.
> 
> If the normal make rules think the target is up to date, .OODATE will be
> empty, thus if meta_oodate says the target is out-of-date, the script
> will run with no args - because $? expands to nothing.
> 
> So either the use of $? should be replaced with ${.ALLSRC} or something
> else that will be consistent, or the target should be marked .NOMETA
> 
> FYI we can [ab]use ${.OODATE} as a token to prevent a line of a script
> from being compared - meta mode knows that the value of .OODATE is
> inconsistent so should not be compared... thus putting
> ${.OODATE:MNO_META_CMP} on a line expands to nothing - no impact on the
> command but still tells meta_oodate to ignore that line for comparison
> purposes. 
> 

The problem is missing-meta requiring a .meta file here.  The $?/.OODATE
comparison exception is only used meta_oodate() if there is already a
.meta file, not for the new missing .meta logic.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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