intermittent flaw in gnumake deps on Win32 ..

[Matúš Kukan]

On 30 March 2012 11:36, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com> wrote:
>        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 ?

They are generated by a pipeline:
$(CXX) ... | filter-showIncludes.pl <dep-file> <object> <source>; exit
${PIPESTATUS[0]}

>        One more data-point, that file was exactly 4096 bytes large:

What does that mean ?

Best,
Matúš