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Summary

  • keep forward dependencies and reverse influences aligned when a later GNU Make pattern-rule alternative replaces an earlier one
  • retain live order-only prerequisites and declared targets as graph nodes, while removing only stale empty nodes after the complete graph is known
  • preserve first-seen prerequisite order and linear deduplication for repeated explicit rules

This fixes disconnected critical-path and DOT-export failures caused by a stale reverse edge or a missing graph node. It does not change GNU Make rule selection: pattern rules remain alternatives, and the graph stores the latest alternative rather than merging alternatives conjunctively.

Girish Kalele first exposed the disconnected-graph failure in gkupscale/make-profiler@95c8d09, carried by gojuno/make-profiler#13. This adapts that fix to the current graph model.

Validation

  • python3 -m pytest -q — 41 passed
  • focused graph suite — 21 passed
  • ruff check make_profiler/parser.py tests/test_dot_export.py
  • python3 -m py_compile make_profiler/parser.py tests/test_dot_export.py
  • git diff --check
  • 216,000 generated graph-invariant cases and 14,641 cases checked against an independent reference model
  • pattern-replacement cleanup remains linear: an 8,000-rule graph completed in 0.025–0.028 seconds

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved build dependency analysis for repeated and pattern-based rules, preserving prerequisite order and avoiding duplicate dependencies.
    • Normal prerequisites now take precedence when a dependency is also listed as order-only.
    • Improved dependency graph accuracy and critical-path analysis, including builds with disconnected sections.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for dependency ordering, graph consistency, pattern rules, repeated targets, and critical-path analysis.

Combine prerequisites from repeated GNU Make single-colon rules so the reverse dependency graph matches forward influences and critical-path traversal assigns late starts to every branch. Keep companion membership sets alongside the ordered dependency lists so repeated-rule deduplication stays linear instead of re-scanning growing lists.

Credit: Girish Kalele's 95c8d09 for surfacing the disconnected-graph KeyError; review identified the incomplete reverse graph as its cause.
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The parser preserves prerequisite order and merges repeated rules. It treats pattern-rule prerequisites as alternatives, gives normal prerequisites precedence over order-only entries, and retains declared targets and live prerequisites in the graph. Tests cover these graph behaviors and critical-path selection.

Changes: Dependency Graph Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule state and prerequisite merging
make_profiler/parser.py
The parser preserves prerequisite order, merges repeated-rule prerequisites with first-seen deduplication, and retains declared targets and live prerequisites during graph cleanup.
Graph and critical-path regression coverage
tests/test_dot_export.py
Tests cover repeated and pattern-rule prerequisite unions, normal-prerequisite precedence, order-only classification, graph edges, DOT output, and critical-path selection.

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Change: Bug fix

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Pattern-rule profiles can report an incorrect critical path and misleading DOT output. Resolve the alternative-rule representation before merging.

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259-265: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve Makefile prerequisite order before merging.

deps is already alphabetically sorted by parse before Line 259 appends it. For all: z a followed by all: y, this returns ['a', 'z', 'y'] instead of source order ['z', 'a', 'y'].

Remove sorting for both normal and order-only prerequisite lists in parse.

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-            order_deps = sorted(order_part.strip().split()) if order_part.strip() else []
+            order_deps = order_part.strip().split() if order_part.strip() else []
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In `@make_profiler/parser.py` around lines 259 - 265, Update parse so normal and
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previous_deps, previous_order_deps = dependencies.get(target, [[], []])
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P1 Badge Preserve applicable pattern-rule alternatives

When multiple pattern rules share a target pattern, an earlier rule can be the one GNU Make actually selects; for example, with %.out: %.first followed by %.out: %.second and both inputs present, GNU Make 4.3 selects the first rule. The GNU Make manual likewise states that when multiple pattern rules match, Make decides among them through its implicit-rule search, rather than unconditionally choosing the latest definition. Discarding the earlier reverse edge here therefore omits a real prerequisite from the exported graph and can calculate the wrong critical path; preserve/model all alternatives instead of replacing them with the last rule.

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GNU Make chooses among matching pattern rules through implicit-rule search using the actual build state. This graph representation has no applicability state, so retaining all alternatives as ordinary edges would incorrectly treat them as conjunctive prerequisites. The current code documents and preserves the existing single stored-alternative contract with matching forward and reverse edges. I am leaving this thread open as a scope decision rather than resolving it as fixed.

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# Pattern rules are alternatives that GNU Make selects through
# implicit-rule search. Without build-state applicability info the
# graph keeps the union of all alternatives (same merge as repeated
# explicit rules) so critical-path traversal never misses an applicable
# earlier rule. GNU Make combines prerequisites from repeated
# single-colon rules. Keep the reverse graph aligned with the forward
# influences below so critical-path traversal can return through every
# incoming edge.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Keep only the latest pattern-rule alternative.

Pattern-rule prerequisites are alternatives, but critical_path treats every entry in influences as an incoming dependency and computes early_start with max(...). Its backward pass also walks every entry in dependencies. With %.o: %.c followed by %.o: %.s, an unselected prerequisite can delay %.o, and both alternatives can receive critical-path or timing tags. export_dot renders both edges without alternative metadata.

Do not implement the union by taking a minimum over the flat prerequisite list. The current graph does not preserve which prerequisites belong to the same alternative, and all consumers would still need alternative-aware behavior. Replace the stored pattern rule and remove the stale reverse edges:

Suggested parser fix
--- "a/make_profiler/parser.py"
+++ "b/make_profiler/parser.py"
@@ -248,15 +248,23 @@
         if target in ('.PHONY',):
             continue
 
-        # Pattern rules are alternatives that GNU Make selects through
-        # implicit-rule search.  Without build-state applicability info the
-        # graph keeps the union of all alternatives (same merge as repeated
-        # explicit rules) so critical-path traversal never misses an applicable
-        # earlier rule.  GNU Make combines prerequisites from repeated
-        # single-colon rules.  Keep the reverse graph aligned with the forward
-        # influences below so critical-path traversal can return through every
-        # incoming edge.
+        # Pattern rules are alternatives. Keep only the latest alternative.
+        if '%' in target:
+            previous = dependencies.get(target)
+            if previous is not None:
+                for dep in previous[0]:
+                    influences[dep].discard(target)
+            dependency_membership.pop(target, None)
+            dependencies[target] = [deps, order_deps]
+            influences[target]
+            for dep in deps:
+                influences[dep].add(target)
+            for dep in order_deps:
+                influences[dep]
+            continue
+
+        # Repeated explicit single-colon rules merge their prerequisites.
         existing_deps, existing_order_deps = dependencies.setdefault(target, [[], []])
         if target not in dependency_membership:
             dependency_membership[target] = (set(existing_deps), set(existing_order_deps))
         known_dep_names, known_order_dep_names = dependency_membership[target]

Update the pattern-rule tests to expect only the latest alternative and to verify that stale normal and order-only nodes are removed when they are no longer live.

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Update pattern-rule handling in the parser to retain only the latest alternative
for a target containing `%`, replacing its stored dependencies and removing
stale reverse influence edges and membership entries from the previous
alternative. Preserve prerequisite merging for repeated explicit rules, and
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