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Ben Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:37:21 +0100

Hi Andrew

thanks for helping me to understand the problem. Indeed, I was aware of
the difference between 3.14 and 3.15 wrt separate rules for .d files.
But I could not imagine this to cause such a problem.

You observed that with 3.15 the snc rule is executed twice, because 3.15
has a separate rule for %.d: %.c and the .c is an intermediate target
for the final test product. Whereas in 3.14 there is no such separate
rule, so snc isn't involved in the first pass.

During the first pass make considers the crash not worth reporting
because of the -include. Indeed this seems to be a feature, though some
think it goes a bit too far, see http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29074

Anyway, this does not yet explain why the /second/ run of snc (which
must have crashed, too) is not reported:

>> /home/franksen/src/seq/branch-2-3/home/bin/linux-x86/snc   +m  wait.i -o
>> wait.c.tmp
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/franksen/src/seq/branch-2-3/home/test/validate/O.linux-x86'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> The second pass ends here, presumably because the snc command died again.

Exactly. But without the segmentation fault message I have no idea /why/
the make aborted.

It seems as if make acts differently here depending on whether it has
already tried the same recipe earlier or not.

I think I will try to distill this down to a test case and report it as
a make bug.

Cheers
Ben

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