From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 6 8:45:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 08:45:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0947737B401 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eB6GjfW21676 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com( 207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma021672; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:25 -0800 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB6GjPB48155 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:25 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200012061645.eB6GjPB48155@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/23328: make forgets about some .SUFFIXES sometimes In-Reply-To: <200012061630.eB6GU1U67138@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI; I just sent in (& received the following ACK for) a PR involving make in -STABLE. I could be pretty confused (it's happened before), but if I'm not, the symptoms involved could be pretty annoying [eliding non-critical material from the ACK]: >Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:30:01 -0800 (PST) >From: gnats-admin@FreeBSD.org >It has the internal identification `bin/23328'. >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23328 >>Category: bin >>Responsible: freebsd-bugs >>Synopsis: make forgets about some .SUFFIXES sometimes >>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 06 08:30:01 PST 2000 (Known result is a failure to actually make certain (suffix-less, in all tested cases so far) targets under some conditions, with make claiming it doesn't know how to make the target(s) in question. Situation-specific circumventions appear to work OK, in that the previously-observed failure doesn't occur. What else might be affected, I don't know, but I would expect it to merely affect make's transformation rules (and make's perception thereof).) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator Desk: 650/577-7158 TIE: 8/499-7158 Cell: 650/759-0823 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message