Dear Yuli,
in message 17467.38648.750449.731249@astp0002.localdomain you wrote:
I won't exaggerate. Debian `unstable' is stable enough even for production use. For really unstable version, you have to use
Did you ever try to explain this to any manager in a company with more than 200 employees? But agreed, that's off topic here.
There are many discussions about what's really broken - make or Makefiles. The 3.81 caused entire Linux kernel to compile each time any
It is *obviously* make which is broken.
problem. Fortunately, for the specific problem which is discussed here the future outcome of this argument does not matter because there is a
Yes, it does matter. Broken tools are a serious problem to all of us, especiallyu when it's such basic tools as make ot gcc or ld.
simple fix. I changed the order of dependencies in the examples/Makefile and the problem disappeared. I have no time to investigate if it's make or Makefile problem (though I personally think it's the latter). I
No. The result of a make run MUST NEVER depend on the order of the dependencies. This is plain unacceptable to me. I'm not even going to discuss this.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk