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Makefile: make Fortran object files depend on their dependency files
When 'make' is invoked on the CICE Makefile, the first thing it does is to try to make the included dependency files (*.d) (which are in fact Makefiles themselves) [1], in alphabetical order. The rule to make the dep files have the dependency generator, 'makdep', as a prerequisite, so when processing the first dep file, make notices 'makdep' does not exist and proceeds to build it. If for whatever reason this compilation fails, make will then proceed to the second dep file, notice that it recently tried and failed to build its dependency 'makdep', give up on the second dep file, proceed to the third, and so on. In the end, no dep file is produced. Make then restarts itself and proceeds to build the code, which of course fails catastrophically because the Fortran source files are not compiled in the right order because the dependency files are missing. To avoid that, add a dependency on the dep file to the rules that make the object file out of the Fortran source files. Since old-fashioned suffix rules cannot have their own prerequisites [2], migrate the rules for the Fortran source files to use pattern rules [3] instead. While at it, also migrate the rule for the C source files. With this new dependency, the builds abort early, before trying to compile the Fortran sources, making it easier to understand what has gone wrong. Since we do not use suffix rules anymore, remove the '.SUFFIXES' lines. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-Makefiles.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Pattern-Rules.html#Pattern-Rules
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