Re: + git-klibc-mktemp-fix.patch added to -mm tree

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" (on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:27:06 -0700) wrote:
> > Either which way; I have a better fix for the bison issue (this all has 
> > to do with the fact that make's handling of tools that output more than 
> > one file at a time is at the very best insane)
>
> Hit the same problem back in the 2.5 kbuild days, and worked around it
> with some dummy dependency rules.  Like this one for bison/yacc.
>
> side_effect(aicasm_gram.tab.h aicasm_gram.tab.c)
>
> which expands to
>
> $(objtree)/aicasm_gram.tab.h: $objtree/aicasm_gram.tab.c
> 	@/bin/true
>
> That forces make to wait until aicasm_gram.tab.c is built before using
> aicasm_gram.tab.h, and allows the following code to depend on either
> aicasm_gram.tab.h or aicasm_gram.tab.c without any races.  The command
> should not get executed, but you still need a command to keep make
> happy.

A better way to do it for something like yacc/bison is to use a pattern 
rule.  Having two things on the LHS means different things for explicit 
and for pattern rules!

	-hpa
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