smbmount problem with GNU make on RedHat Linux

[Grosen, Mark]

I have a problem with GNU make running on a SMB share from a Win NT 4 server
mounted on a RedHat Linux 6.0 box. The following makefile exhibits the
problem:

O,LINU = .olinud

all :
	rm -rf $(O,LINU)

$(O,LINU)/%.a : $(O,LINU)/%.o
	@touch $@


If the directory (.olinud) exists when the makefile is run, the following
error results:

rm: cannot remove directory '.olinud': Device or resource busy

It's like the dependency rule has caused make to "open" the directory and
"somebody" (NT? smbmnt?) thinks it is still open?

This same makefile works fine on a local (disk) filesystem as well as on an
NT client (using the NT version of GNU make) mounting the same NT share.

Software involved:

RedHat Linux 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5
Samba 2.0.6 (installed from the binary rpm on samba.org)
Windows NT 4 SP3 Server
GNU make 3.78


Mark Grosen
Dialogic Corporation, an Intel Company
mark.grosen at dialogic.com
805 964-5083