From: luke AT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au (Luke Kendall)
Subject: Re: B19.1 make.exe - mishandling set -e, excessive target activity
16 Oct 1998 13:46:27 -0700
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I'm doing this under Unix (SunOS 5.5.1) and using gmake 3.74,
but also getting the same results under Windows NT4.0 sp3, using
Cygnus Beta 19.1 and therefore GNU Make version 3.75-B19.

Yesterday, I reported the problem below.  Today it bit me.
This really seems like a bug in gmake.

> Problem 2
> ---------
> If I make these two files:
>
> --- file test.gmk ---
>
> all:
> 	@echo all done
>
> include other
>
> --- file other ---
>
> do_other:
> 	@echo other stuff
>
> ----
>
> And try:
> 	make -f test.gmk -d
>
> The output (and the amount of time make takes) suggests
> that it is really trying to treat  "test.gmk" and "other"
> as targets!!

I have simplified the actual makefiles that tripped me up,
down to these very simple demonstration cases.

Behold - I choose the "targ1" target, and both targets get made:

$ cat test1.gmk
targ1:
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"

top-dirs:
        @echo "top-dirs done"

targ2 test1.gmk : top-dirs
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"
$ gmake -f test1.gmk targ1
top-dirs done				<---- !!!
Target is test1.gmk			<---- !!!
test1.gmk done				<---- !!!
Target is targ1
targ1 done

Now these two slight variants, that work correctly.  This first one
doesn't use the intermediate target "top-dirs" for the unrelated
targ2:

$ cat test2.gmk
targ1:
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"

top-dirs:
        @echo "top-dirs done"

targ2 test2.gmk :
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"
$ gmake -f test2.gmk
Target is targ1
targ1 done

And this one does use the intermediate target "top-dirs", but doesn't
have its own name in the target unrelated to targ1:

$ cat test3.gmk
targ1:
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"

top-dirs:
        @echo "top-dirs done"

targ2 xxx : top-dirs
        @echo "Target is $@"
        @echo "$@ done"
$ gmake -f test3.gmk targ1
Target is targ1
targ1 done

I think this is due, somehow, to gmake's strange attempt to use
the makefile itself, and any included file, in the rule sets.

luke
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