Re: patch to function.c (was Re: Schedule for GNU make 3.81)

[Alessandro Vesely]

Miles Duke wrote:
> You [ale] wrote:
>
> > As a side effect of that investigation I posted
> >
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3747
> >
> > I don't think it's worth the hassle of testing it, unless someone
> > has unknown problems with CreateProcess or CreatePipe in W32.
>
> I have unknown problems with CreateProcess(). [... intermittent bug 
> description...]

[snipped: output from failing CreateProcess]

> The intermittent symptoms seem consistent with the problem reported in 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2000-11/msg00062.html

Hmmm... I've tried to reproduce the error running a couple of fairly
recent make versions against Svend's bug.mak, but both failed saying

   *** No rule to make target `condat/condat_env.mak'.  Stop.

However, I had replaced cpp.exe and perl.exe with a dummy executable.

> I have applied your patch to function.c.  If it works, I'll vote for 
> your patch!

As the useless_patch still has 0 votes, I assume it didn't work.
Did you try the new 3.81 version?
If that fails, do you have a (set of) makefiles that reproduce the bug?

Cheers
Ale

> Miles Duke
>
> Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging