Bug 48449

I can't reproduce this on Linux or Mac OS X by

./configure
make distclean

so this might be specific to your platform, your configuration, or both.  Can you provide the exact OS version you're using, and attach config.nice, config.log, config.status, and the output from "make distclean"?

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make distclean

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config.log

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config.status

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config.nice

BSD/OS gbrmail.com 4.3 BSDI BSD/OS 4.3.1

Looking at make.out, I don't see those files being deleted.  Are you sure it's "make distclean" deleting them, and not something else, maybe an over-enthusiastic overnight cron job trying to clean up core files?

I am positive it is not a cron job deleting core.

I did run into this type of problem in 1978 on TOPS-20 when I was in R&D at Digital, and have made sure to not be bitten by it again.

I am able to reproduce the bug at any time

There is likely an errand regex somewhere trying to delete core files in the distclean doing this.   The problem does not occur when make clean is run

Can you try local-distclean on server/ and tell us result?

./configure
cd server/
make local-distclean

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local-distclean.out

It seems there's nothing about core.c and core_filters.c in local-distclean.out...
Does "make local-distclean" remove core.c and core_filters.c ?

On a related note, the Makefile in httpd-2.2.14 contains the line

.include "$(top_srcdir)/os/os2/core.mk"

but that file does not exist, nor is this an OS/2 system


As well, there is an error in the httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util
at lines 48 and 49

include /Src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/build/rules.mk
include /Src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/build-outputs.mk


Someone is not checking BSD_MAKEFILE and produced the lines above
Of course, fixing them by hand is a workaround

Makefile attached

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Makefile_srclib_apr-util

(In reply to comment #11)
> It seems there's nothing about core.c and core_filters.c in
> local-distclean.out...
> Does "make local-distclean" remove core.c and core_filters.c ?

Yes, those files were removed by make local-distclean

I wonder if this is something that BSD Make is causing?  Would it be possible to install GNU Make and try a configure and make distclean, making sure it's using GNU Make instead of the system make?

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