make(1): add explanation for test suff-rebuild

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rillig 2020-11-21 12:01:16 +00:00
parent 416a199000
commit bbdb624c98
3 changed files with 23 additions and 4 deletions

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/* $NetBSD: suff.c,v 1.257 2020/11/21 10:36:01 rillig Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: suff.c,v 1.258 2020/11/21 12:01:16 rillig Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993
@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
#include "dir.h"
/* "@(#)suff.c 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/21/94" */
MAKE_RCSID("$NetBSD: suff.c,v 1.257 2020/11/21 10:36:01 rillig Exp $");
MAKE_RCSID("$NetBSD: suff.c,v 1.258 2020/11/21 12:01:16 rillig Exp $");
#define SUFF_DEBUG0(text) DEBUG0(SUFF, text)
#define SUFF_DEBUG1(fmt, arg1) DEBUG1(SUFF, fmt, arg1)
@ -642,6 +642,16 @@ SuffUpdateTarget(GNode *target, GNode **inout_main, Suff *suff, Boolean *r)
if (target->type == OP_TRANSFORM)
return FALSE;
/*
* XXX: What is the purpose of the 'ptr == target->name' condition here?
* In suff-rebuild.mk in the line '.SUFFIXES: .c .b .a', it prevents the
* rule '.b.c' from being added again during Suff_AddSuffix(".b").
*/
/*
* XXX: What about a transformation ".cpp.c"? If ".c" is added as a new
* suffix, it seems wrong that this transformation would be skipped just
* because ".c" happens to be a prefix of ".cpp".
*/
if ((ptr = strstr(target->name, suff->name)) == NULL ||
ptr == target->name)
return FALSE;

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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ defining transformation from `.c' to `'
inserting ".c" (3) at end of list
inserting "" (0) at end of list
ParseReadLine (22): ' : Making ${.TARGET} from ${.IMPSRC}.'
ParseReadLine (35): '.SUFFIXES: .c .b .a'
ParseReadLine (44): '.SUFFIXES: .c .b .a'
transformation .c complete
ParseDoDependency(.SUFFIXES: .c .b .a)
Adding ".END" to all targets.

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# $NetBSD: suff-rebuild.mk,v 1.5 2020/11/21 11:55:57 rillig Exp $
# $NetBSD: suff-rebuild.mk,v 1.6 2020/11/21 12:01:16 rillig Exp $
#
# Demonstrates what happens to transformation rules (called inference rules
# by POSIX) when all suffixes are deleted.
@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ suff-rebuild-example.a:
# As of 2020-09-25, uncommenting the following line results in the error
# message "don't know how to make suff-rebuild-example" though.
#
# If this is a bug, the actual cause is probably that when a suffix
# transformation rule is defined, it is not added to the global list of
# targets, see Suff_EndTransform. Later, UpdateTargets iterates over exactly
# this global list of targets though.
#
# If UpdateTargets were to iterate over 'transforms' as well, it still
# wouldn't work because the condition 'ptr == target->name' skips these
# transformation rules.
#.SUFFIXES:
# Add the suffixes back. It should not matter that the order of the suffixes