Re: glibc 2.2.4: `make clean all' bails out due to a dependency problem

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On 23 Aug 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Nothing which cannot be run with -j HIGH-NUMBER without adding tons of
> additional rules is not worth it.  clean and build are completely
> counter in their intend and therefore not to be used together.

 Well, I haven't checked if there is a barrier to prevent "clean" and
"all" from being executed in parallel, I admit.  That's not the point
here.  The point is there is a bug in Makefiles and `make clean all' is
the simplest way of triggering it -- that's just the way I discovered it. 
Avoiding this invocation does not cure the bug.  A simple proofreading of
Makefiles confirms the bug exists. 

 Do you really think finding another way to trigger the bug is worth
spending the time?

 I'd suggest forgetting about the `make clean all' issue and focusing on
the correctness of Makefiles.

  Maciej

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