Re: [PATCH] fix parallel make problem

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 31, 2007, 02:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmyw85uml.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070830072748.GF16312@mellanox.co.il>

How about this as a replacement? I notice that after a successful build all the test-*.o files are removed by make, and somehow make seems to believe it is Ok not to recreate them.

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 Makefile |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4eb4637..51af531 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -969,6 +969,8 @@ test-date$X: date.o ctype.o
 
 test-delta$X: diff-delta.o patch-delta.o
 
+.PRECIOUS: $(patsubst test-%$X,test-%.o,$(TEST_PROGRAMS))
+
 test-%$X: test-%.o $(GITLIBS)
 	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(filter %.o,$^) $(LIBS)
 
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