Re: SUFFIXES bug

[Cyril Bouthors]

Patrick Craig writes:
 > 
 > But you would only reread the directory when an error condition occured
 > so Makfiles that worked before wouldn't be affected.

        I agree with Paul that nobody wants to negates the purpose of
the cache but 'GNU Make' could do one more stat() just before exiting
if it can't find a way to make a target.

        This won't degrade performances since it will only reread disk
in case of failure. 'GNU Make' could then complain with an explicit
warning or error about internal cache and targets that confuse it.
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