Apparently, I did not attach the right file to the previous post. Here
it is.

In regards with our previous conversation, my make version is 3.80:

$ make -v
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Liviu

Liviu Nicoara wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> I believe this is the patch we want. After we talked I realized that the
>   order-only dependency actually is in effect and what we were seeing it
> was the correct behaviour. So, I am attaching it here. What it does is
> that the deps are depending on the existence on the config.h file (not
> its age).
> 
> Addressing:
> 
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-85
> 
> ChangeLog entry:
> 
> 2005-12-30  Liviu Nicoara  <nicoara@roguewave.com>
> 
> 	* GNUMakefile: removed useless rules: all, builddir, added
> 	  rule lib, added variable INCDIR
> 	* etc/config/makefile.rules: added order-only dependency
> 	  on ($INCDIR)/config.h for .d files
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Liviu
> 
> Martin Sebor wrote:
> 
>>Liviu Nicoara wrote:
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>Please let me know if you see any more problems with it.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>+config:
>>>+	$(MAKE) -C$(INCDIR)
>>>+
>>
>>
>>While this might be the right thing to do(*) I think it will become
>>a problem -- reading in and processing the entire GNUmakefile.cfg
>>every time make is invoked in either the examples or tests
>>subdirectories will be prohibitively expensive on slow systems.
>>
>>(*) If we did decide to go this route, we'd need to do the same
>>thing for the other dependencies, i.e., the library and, for tests,
>>the test driver. That will slow things down even more.
>>
>>
>>
>>># rule to make dependencies for C++ source files
>>>-$(DEPENDDIR)/%.d: %.cpp
>>>+$(DEPENDDIR)/%.d: %.cpp config
>>
>>
>>I would try this instead:
>>
>>   $(DEPENDDIR)/%.d: %.cpp | config
>>
>>Martin
>>
> 
> 
>