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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2001 15:20:22 +0200
From:	Marius Gedminas <marius DOT gedminas AT uosis DOT mif DOT vu DOT lt>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: 'make aux' hangs ?
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:02:58PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> apparently make cannot find Makefile in current directory, so it has
> no reasons to treat 'aux' as phony. so, it checks if there exists such
> file.

Checking if the file exists should not block IMHO, even if that file is
a DOS device.  Stat-ing too (just tried ls -l aux).  Only
reading/writing should block.

I have tried `make aux' with no Makefile and with several makefiles, but
could not reproduce the problem (Win2000, Cygwin 1.3.1; nearly latest --
bash is only 2.05-5, not 2.05-6).

# No makefile: `make: Nothing to be done for `aux''

# This makefile: `make: `aux' is up to date.'
aux:
        @echo foo

# This one: `foo'
aux:
        @echo foo
.PHONY: aux

# This one: `foo'
aux: test
test:
        echo foo

# This one: `foo'
aux: test
test:
        echo foo
.PHONY: aux

Marius Gedminas
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.

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