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krb5-misc/53: build system depends on l-r ordering of dependencies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tlyu@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 3 23:46:20 1996
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:45:09 -0400
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>Number: 53
>Category: krb5-misc
>Synopsis: build system depends on l-r ordering of dependencies
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct e 23:46:03 EDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tom Yu
>Organization:
mit
>Release: 1.0-development
>Environment:
System: SunOS tesla-coil 5.4 Generic_101945-37 sun4m sparc
>Description:
For some odd reason, we don't use enough explicit dependencies
where we really should, and have things like
all-unix:: includes $(OBJS)
when some of $(OBJS) depend on the includes. Basically, we're
depending on make to evaluate dependencies from left to right, which
is Just Wrong. I believe that POSIX.2 recommends that nobody depend
on left-to-right dependencies, but doesn't require it.
>How-To-Repeat:
Build under NetBSD with native compiler and make.
>Fix:
Needs some more investigation as to where exactly we're
depending on left-to-right ordering of dependencies.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
