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Subject: Re: EPICS 3.15.0 incompatible make rules
From: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:37:37 +0200
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2012, 03:23:22 schrieb Andrew C. Starritt:
> > > (A somewhat strange effect is that if I set LANG=C, then I get no
> >
> > such
> >
> > > message!)
> >
> > I can't explain that...
>
> I think I can. Try this:
>
> [starritt@redgum]$ touch a z A Z _
> [starritt@redgum]$ ls -l
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 _
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 a
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 A
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 z
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 Z
>
> [starritt@redgum]$ export LANG=C
> [starritt@redgum]$ ls -l
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 A
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 Z
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 _
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 a
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 starritt starritt 0 Oct  8 12:03 z
>
> The order that ls lists directories and files is affected by
> the LANG environment variable.
>
> With no explicit dependency rule, items added to DIRS with
>
> DIRS := $(DIRS) $(filter-out $(DIRS), $(wildcard *App))
>
> are build in the same order as ls lists them. I think there must be a
> depencency order that is implicity being catered for when LANG is set
> to C.

Yeah, that's a probable explanation, some variable uses wildcards or $(shell
ls) or whatever, and rules are not fully order-independent.

Anyway, the problem disappeared after I applied the known problem patches, so
I guess I'll leave it at that...

Cheers
--
Ben Franksen
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References:
EPICS 3.15.0 incompatible make rules Dirk Zimoch
Re: EPICS 3.15.0 incompatible make rules Andrew Johnson
RE: EPICS 3.15.0 incompatible make rules Andrew C. Starritt

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