[petsc-dev] Dependence of build on test target broken

[Jed Brown]

"Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>   Satish,
>
>     I am confused. I checked out the commit just before this commit and do 
>
> $ touch src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> $ make -j 12 -f gmakefile.test test globsearch="snes*tests*ex1*"

Use "-f gmakefile" if you want to include library build dependencies
(almost always while developing).  gmakefile.test primarily exists to
run tests with an installed PETSc.

> Use "/usr/bin/make V=1" to see verbose compile lines, "/usr/bin/make V=0" to suppress.
>           CC arch-basic/tests/snes/examples/tests/ex1.o
>           CC arch-basic/tests/snes/examples/tests/ex17.o
> ...
>
> It is not attempting to rebuild the library, I then editing matrix.c with a blank line and again 
> make test had no interest in rebuilding the library.
>
> I then checkout maint and do the same thing. It doesn't bother rebuilding the library, just starts on the tests
>
>
>   What am I misunderstanding? Something to with the Mac? 
>
>   Barry
>
>
>
>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Balay, Satish via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Matthew Knepley via petsc-dev wrote:
>> 
>>> After my latest pull of master, making the 'test' target no longer rebuilds
>>> the library. I have tested this on a few arches, and rebuilt. This is
>>> pretty inconvenient, but I do not know how to fix it.
>> 
>> 
>> git bisect gives the following.
>> 
>> Satish
>> 
>> -----
>> 
>> 27d73d1f0a5c445a3a02971e31a2a1a02ed6d224 is the first bad commit
>> commit 27d73d1f0a5c445a3a02971e31a2a1a02ed6d224
>> Author: Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Date:   Sat Jun 22 22:56:05 2019 -0500
>> 
>>    Fix the error from gmakefile.test test about trying to remove a non-empty directory
>> 
>>    The problem was the target to rm -r the directory was running at the same time as
>>    tests tests where generatering new files in the directory
>> 
>>    Commit-type: bug-fix
>> 
>> :100644 100644 67a00e0c1c9ce3eb91a88f314e81a74ac278131f 9c0c1b310a238fc27df3af114ec96336ef5640d2 M      gmakefile.test
>>