Re: "./contrib/gcc_update --touch" doesn't work with make

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:53:25PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> (Reply-draft cleanup.)
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > > On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 
> (About the need to silence make in gcc_update when invoked from
> other make.)
> 
> > > >     while ${MAKE-make} -s -f Makefile.$$ all | grep . > /dev/null; do
> > >
> > > If you just want to add -s to make, this is portable, as far as I can
> > > see, so please go ahead and commit your change with a proper ChangeLog.
> >
> > It turns out that -s still doesn't work in all cases. I didn't bother
> > to track it down.
> 
> Example case where it doesn't work?  It works for me in "all
> cases".  I've had the same patch in my tree for too long.

I have a build tree for my own Linux based on RedHat. gcc 3.1 won't
build inside my tree because gcc31.spec does

%prep
%setup -q -n gcc-%{version}-%{DATE}
...
./contrib/gcc_update --touch

and ./contrib/gcc_update goes into an infinite loop when I do

# make

My makefile:

---
NAME=gcc
VERSION=3.1
RELEASE=9

SPEC=gcc31.spec

PATCHES=\
	boehm-gc-mips.patch \
	boehm-gc-LINUX.patch \
	gcc-cpp-named.patch \
	gcc-cross-bfd.patch \
	gcc-cross.patch \
	gcc-c++-template.patch \
	gcc-gcj-cross.patch \
	gcc-libffi-mips.patch \
	gcc-libgcc.patch \
	gcc-libstdc++-mips.patch \
	gcc-linux-atexit.patch \
	gcc-mips-coff.patch \
	gcc-mips-file.patch \
	gcc-mips-ieee.patch \
	gcc-mips-return.patch \
	gcc-ppc-linux.patch \
	gcc-sizeof.patch \
	gcc-test-atexit.patch \
	gcc-testsuite-c++.patch \
	libjava-cross.patch \
	libtool-libs.patch \
	libtool-mips.patch \
	contrib-touch.patch \

NATIVE-RPMFLAGS+=--without ada

# Uncomment the line below to disable "make check".
#RPMFLAGS+=--without check

include ../common.mk

PATH:=$(TOOLPREFIX)-3.1/bin:/usr/gcc-3.1/bin:$(PATH)
---



H.J.