Wt

The build for version 3.3.1 stops after trying to compile src/Wt/Http/Request from src/Wt/Http/Request.C

On the distribution Request.C has a newer date than the Request header, that is a dependency of many other

sources in the project.

The default intrinsic rules in the POSIX standard for make try to rebuild an extensionless file (assumed

executable) from a suitable newer source found in the same directory, in particular POSIX defines as defaults:

SINGLE SUFFIX RULES

.c:

$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<

.f:

$(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<

.sh:

cp $< $@

chmod a+x $@

Apparently FreeBSD also adds a similar rule for the extension .C

I guess this problem doesn't happen too often because people tend to put their headers in a separate directory from

their C sources, or give them .h or .hpp suffixes.

As a workaround, forcing the -r switch to make through the environment variable MAKEFLAGS solves the problem.

Probably it would be best to add some extension to the headers to avoid this misunderstanding on POSIX-style systems.