make keeps an open handle to a file, can't delete parent directory

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Alexander Sotirov <asotirov@determina.com> ha
scritto:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem with GNU make 3.81 on cygwin
> 1.5.22. It looks like a
> problem with cygwin and not make, but I am not sure
> exactly what's causing it.

confirmed also with 20070118 shapshot and 3.81-1

> The part of the makefile that causes this error is
> the implicit rule on the
> bottom of the file. This rule specifies an implicit
> rule for files inside the
> foo/bar/ directory. If the rule is present, make
> keeps an open handle to the
> foo/bar/ directory, which prevents it from being
> deleted. If the rule is
> commented out, everything works fine.
> 
> If we replace the 'rm -rf' command with 'sleep' and
> running Process Explorer, it
> shows the open handle in make. I've attached a
> screenshot of that.
> 
> Alex
> > create:
> 	mkdir foo
> 	mkdir foo/bar
> 
> clear:
> 	-rm -rf foo
> 	ls -la foo
> 
> foo/bar/%.obj: foo/bar/%.c
> 	echo implicit rule
> > 

it seems an issue of make as

rm -rf foo
gave no problem on command line

Regards
Marco






	

	
		
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