intermittent flaw in gnumake deps on Win32 ..

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 30 of March 2012, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> 	Regina's problem comes down to a corrupt .d file.
>
> 	Any ideas how that could happen ? are these generated by a pipeline ?
> are we failing to delete them if a compile fails mid-flow ?
>
> 	Then again, Regina didn't abort the build manually, so the
> ctrl-c-in-mid-flow case is not at issue.
>
> 	Thoughts,

 Is the problem reproducible? And if yes, does using our own make from contrib 
help? I don't know if it's related, but I had the stock cygwin make 
generating broken .d files (although IIRC the problem was generating Windows 
paths rather than Unix paths).

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 Lubos Lunak
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