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Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching |
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Fri, 07 Oct 2016 08:06:32 -0400 |
On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 00:10 +0000, Martin Dorey wrote:
> ... then I failed to find any source that invalidates that cache, be
> it the whole cache, just one directory or one entry in that directory.
I'd have to reread that code to be sure but I don't think that's how it
works. I think that what's supposed to happen is that when a target is
built, that target is explicitly added to the cache by GNU make, not
that the cache is invalidated and reread from scratch.
Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching, Paul Smith, 2016/10/06