[cmake-developers] Compiling CMake 3.6.1 fails on Raspbian Jessie

[Cristian Adam]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 09/06/2016 02:39 PM, Cristian Adam wrote:
> > Who should have noticed that the two object files were empty and try a
> > new compilation? CMake or make?
>
> Nothing.  This is not a failure case that we expect to be handled.
> The .o files exist with a timestamp newer than their dependencies,
> so the build system thinks they are up to date.  The fact that the
> wrong content was written to them due to a system failure is not
> something we can know or tolerate.
>
> -Brad
>
>
I see. Due to object headers one should not be able to produce an
empty object file with a compiler.

Brad, thank you for the help. Now I know how to analyze archive files \m/

Cheers,
Cristian.
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