Re: Variable assignment in Make 3.77 on i686, Red Hat

2000-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
Sorry, I forgot: the GNU BTS is at: http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but

Re: Cannot use computed %

2000-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
to a vpath pathname. Well, I take that back; you could do it if you also defined GPATH. Phew! Dodged another bullet! :) -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain c

Re: gmake -j on DYNIX/ptx

2000-03-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
OS/version, or are you using a NAC or Auspex or something as an NFS server? You might try asking on comp.protocols.nfs. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm

Re: bug report (v3.77): target specific variable values

2000-03-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Netw

Re: auto-dependencies and deleted files

2000-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
method of dependency generation solves the problem more generically without it anyway. See here: http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/autodep.html Have fun! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are m

Re: Sequencing of sub-makefile generation

2000-04-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
a.d: No such file or directory 13.mk:5: b.mk: No such file or directory echo "a" a echo "b: a" b.mk; echo "include b.d" b.mk echo "a.d: a" a.d b.mk:2: b.d: No such file or directory echo "a" b echo "b.d: b" b.d cat a b

Re: Assertion failed

2000-04-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
)); - *colonp = ':'; + *p2 = ':'; if (!filenames) { -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: PATCH: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional.&q

Re: gmake 3.78.1 and (if) problems

2000-05-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
There was a bug fixed with if in 3.79. Please try the latest version and re-report if it still fails. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

Re: Problem generating a .c file

2000-05-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
the GNU make manual. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
on system calls make uses). 2) Use a configure check for this OS (I don't see how a configure macro for this can easily be written) and only wrap the stat(2) in an EINTR loop on this OS (i386-sequent-sysv4). -- ------

Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
this is a real (even potential) problem for most/all OS's, then maybe a different solution than wrapping all the system calls in EINTR checks is in order. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU mak

Re: Assertion failure in make 3.78.1

2000-06-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is PR/1586, already fixed in the latest release of GNU make. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld

Re: parallel make bug

2000-06-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
al describing errors. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: GNUmake 3.78 - crashes on NT

2000-06-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
... -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: ifdef problem

2000-06-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
(error FOO not defined) endif -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may b

Re: PATCH: .SECONDARY target with no dependencies does not work correctly.

2000-06-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
, INTERMEDIATE, and SECONDARY. I'll file an enhancement request about it. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org

Re: make 3.79 status problem

2000-06-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
lot. Can you give me a more complete example? If you have that makefile and you run make with -q it _should_ exit with 1, since it needs to build "foo"... ? You must have some other setup beyond just the makefile. -- ---

My GNU make page has moved...

2000-06-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'm terminating my current Ultranet dialup account, since Lexington now has cable modems (yay, RCN!) That means my GNU make page has moved; please note the new URL below. Thanks! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3.79 not correctly checking archive members

2000-06-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is PR/1696 (IIRC) (see README file for how to access the bug database) and has already been fixed in the sources. The next release of GNU make (3.79.1) should be out very shortly. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: FW: Can not locate classpath files ....

2000-06-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
with make. Looks like your PATH isn't set correctly or something. Make doesn't know where to find anything, itself, it uses the shell, which relies on your PATH environment variable. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: dollar, open bracket, at, dollar, close bracket

2000-06-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
".". If that doesn't answer your question, please supply a small sample makefile, the results you get from running it, and what you expected. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips

Re: GNU make 3.79.1 on solaris 2.6

2000-07-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: vpath syntax problem (CORRECTION)

2000-07-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
. Please try something more recent. The latest is 3.79.1, available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ and mirrors. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes

2000-07-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but

Re: semantics of .DELETE_ON_ERROR

2000-07-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
.) -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no resp

Re: semantics of .DELETE_ON_ERROR

2000-07-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Raymond Nijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rn ::: "PDS" == Paul D Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: %% Raymond Nijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rn As a result, my .a files are not deleted if a .o file fails to rn compile, and then my executable will link happily in a recu

Re: Circular dependency dropping error

2000-07-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
printing an error. Am I correct here, or am I missing something? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "P

Re: Circular dependency dropping error

2000-07-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
row it out. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: make-3.79.1 on glibc-2.1.91 (2)

2000-07-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
on? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional.&q

Re: make-3.79.1 on glibc-2.1.91 (2)

2000-07-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bh Paul D. Smith writes: Seems like any decent compiler would omit this code! Since Linux is using GCC, I would double-expect that. Maybe it only happens when you build with optimization on? bh No compiler is required to omit "

Re: Help

2000-07-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
uild it for Windows (see the README.W32 file for information on this). -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: make 3.79.1 configure shouldn't cache --disable-nsec-timestamps

2000-07-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
. Is there anything about this in the GNU standards? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain cal

Re: make-3.79.1 on glibc-2.1.91 (2)

2000-07-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but

Re: surprising behavior: `wildcard' expands tilde, but `shell' doesn't

2000-07-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
the shell. That globbing library does understand ~. HTH. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please

Re: release 3.78.1 versus 3.79.1

2000-07-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
Hmm. Yes, this is probably a bug. The += operator wasn't working in other respects with target-specific variables, but it looks like fixing that bug broke this behavior. I'll look at it. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: Make and hex '0D'

2000-07-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- Th

Re: error during compilation in platform WIN32

2000-07-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Get the latest version, 3.79.1. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad

Re: pass arguments?

2000-08-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
manual; maybe that will answer your question. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain cal

Re: Timestamp problem with multi-target build?

2000-08-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
what you want is either with a dummy target, or using multiple targets in a pattern rule, which _does_ behave this way (see this section of the manual). -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make

Re: Target specific includes

2000-08-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
dencies, see my web page below. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: Problem with += and target-specific variables

2000-08-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is known bug PR/1831. See the README, etc. for information on accessing the online bug database for GNU make. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

Re: Question/how-to

2000-08-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
n write a pattern for them all) you have to go back to the traditional dummy target method. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.pau

Re: Option `-n' broken

2000-08-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
t be printed cw make: `foobar' is up to date. Same reason as above. If you remove "foobar" as a prerequisite from the special file "Makefile", you won't see this behavior anymore WRT "foobar". --

Re: automatic removal of intermediate files

2000-08-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

RE: switch statement bug on Sol 5.7

2000-08-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
igure and compile with, if any? -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: Bug/feature?: test -f empty string gives an error

2000-08-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
then javac $$listjava; fi to find out whether the value of $listjava is empty or not. Again, this is a shell issue, not a make issue; consult your shell manual for help with how the shell expands variables, and the possible arguments to "test". -- ------

Re: make 3.79: patsubst function vs multiple % in replacement text

2000-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
he reason this was implemented as it was. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: Bug in 3.79?

2000-09-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
Please try the latest version (3.79.1); I believe this problem is already fixed. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Multiple Targets in a Rule

2000-09-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
lt as prerequisites: all: a b a b: c ; touch $@ -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please rema

Re: including makefiles...

2000-09-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
hat target would be declared before any others. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm

Re: [Bug-make] ./make check failure installing make 3.79.1

2000-09-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
In general, it's to be avoided. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be m

Re: [Bug-make] strange word ordering for translated messages

2000-09-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
OK, I've changed the code to print full sentences. Thx! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "P

Re: Compile errors under Mac OS X Server

2000-09-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _

Re: Not a bug - an offer of code

2000-10-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
contact RMS directly. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad

Re: Bug#72802: make fails to correctly echo commands

2000-10-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
this is a bug; I'll look into it. Thx. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain cal

Re: Bug with repeated instances of per-target variable assignment

2000-10-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
value[oldlen + 1], newlen + 1); } } +} #ifdef __MSDOS__ /* Many Unix Makefiles include a line saying "SHELL=/bin/sh", but -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http

Re: funtions in rule ?

2000-10-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
sym=$(patsubst __objc_class_name_%,%,$$sym); \ to something like this: sym=`nm -Pg $$f | sed s/__objc_class_name_//`; \ -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http

Re: archive members always out of date

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
I believe this problem is fixed there. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm

Re: -include is not silent in 3.79.1

2000-10-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
for me (doesn't print a message) with GNU make 3.79.1 on Linux, so I think it must be a cygwin problem... ? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

Re: @F does not work on an Intel x86 system

2000-11-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
next major release of GNU make. Thanks! -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm

Re: GNU enhancement -- $(xargs cmd, list)

2000-11-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
means $(xargs ...) has a truly bizarre functionality, much different than any existing GNU make function. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Minor problem using just made make

2000-11-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
k" did not work until after the "make install" was done. Again, it should have done so (well, you need to run "./make check", of course). If that doesn't work, again, please send me the errors. It works for me. -- ---

Re: Stems in pattern rules suck! Why not use regexes

2000-12-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
oduce some prereleases for the next version. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm

Re: Future modification time bug with gmake 3.79 on Solaris 8

2000-12-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is indeed a bug in 3.79 that was fixed in 3.79.1 (if it's the bug I'm thinking of). -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: library/clock bug in make-3.79

2000-12-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is already fixed. You need the latest version of GNU make (3.79.1). HTH. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Make 3.79.1 2000

2000-12-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
ose | sh -x ;\ : chmod $(MODE) $(DESTDIR)/$(FILE) ;\ done See the shell man page for more details. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

Re: configure bug in make-3.79.1

2000-12-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimi X) writes: "PDS" == Paul D Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PDS Thanks; this has been fixed in the sources for a while. jx Sorry 'bout that.. is that on sourceware? No. GNU tools are available via CVS on the FSF's subversions server. Start her

Re: Prerequisite variable expansion

2000-12-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a profess

Re: canned sequences and echo

2000-12-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is a known bug in this version of GNU make. I haven't generated a patch for it yet. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: make version 3.79.1, VPATH problem(?)

2001-01-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
to nothing about make (or any other programming, for that matter) on Windows, and even less about the Cygwin environment, so I'm afraid I can't be much more help :(. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]HASMAT--HA

Re: GNU Make on VMS

2001-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Please try the latest version (GNU make 3.79.1). The correct fix is to remove those lines. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Better Debugging

2001-01-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
option to generate the makefile database, it will show each variable, it's value, and where (file name and line number) it was defined. There are also various different values for debug options you can set. -- --- Paul D

Re: y2k bug

2001-01-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
(or, if not defined, the value in your system inttypes.h). -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "P

Re: Order of variable definition and rule matters!?

2001-01-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
you'd get a warning about this. A more detailed explanation of expansion rules in make is available in the ``How `make' Reads a Makefile'' section of the manual. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: how can force make if time stamps are equal?

2001-02-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
? No. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ___ Bug-make ma

Re: Volunteer available

2001-02-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
same ballpark. Thx! -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I

Re: semi-colon in makefiles?

2001-02-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a profess

Re: Unable to build gmake 3.79.1 on AIX 4.3.3.0

2001-02-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
9 2000 ru.mo -rw-r--r--1 psmith rcms34217 Jan 25 2000 ru.po th ./configure --disable-nls make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. I'll look at this one. -- --- Paul D. Smith

Re: semi-colon in makefiles?

2001-02-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
ems you're seeing here. Or, make might be using command.com, or something else. Anyway, the problem is with the shell that make is invoking to run that command, not with make itself. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: The trap in Node: Automatic Prerequisites

2001-02-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
equire a bit of work. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a profe

Re: Implementing an eval function

2001-02-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
that works for you on the system you care about (Linux), so my advice is to go ahead and use that until such time as 3.80 is available or in pretest. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips

Re: target-specific variable problem

2001-02-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
specific variable has been set -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I

Re: NT multi-tasking issue

2001-02-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
with no -j, then something is seriously wrong with your make or your makefile. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley

Re: Space after continuation char \ causes commands commence before first target error

2001-03-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
ine number in the makefile where make detected the error. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please

Re: (no subject)

2001-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
ays happen, but only for particular kinds of makefiles. If you are seeing this go away during some invocations of the same makefile, then I doubt it's the same problem. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find som

Re: Space after continuation char \ causes commands commence before first target error

2001-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
y `make'), or, if the error is found in a makefile, the name of the file and linenumber containing the problem. Although of course examples can't hurt. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU

Re: Bug tracking system reincarnated...

2001-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
ew minutes. No filter/approval is needed. Are you sure you assigned them to the right project? Can you remember the title of the bug(s)? I'll check with the GNU folks to make sure the GNATS stuff is running OK. -- ------- Pau

Re: GNU make exitcode

2001-03-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
other program, you're seeing the exit code of tee or grep or the other program, not make. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Null-termination bug in gmake

2001-03-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
Just to be completely clear, you're talking about the VMS code, right? In my current version of variable.c, these lines are different. Thx. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips

Re: Make configure error on AIX 4.3.3 w/GCC 2.95.2.1

2001-03-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
, here, but it's better to provide it explicitly. Thanks! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "P

Re: assertion failure

2001-03-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
) eh For what it's worth, I do not see this behavior with 3.79.1 (it says eh "Nothing to be done for ` '") As you discovered, this bug was fixed in 3.79. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fin

Re: Pattern Specific Variable Limitation

2001-03-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
ges to. I have a preference for -u, others prefer -c; it doesn't really matter. Thanks. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.pau

RE: Pattern Specific Variable Limitation

2001-03-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
if pattern rules and target-specific patterns used different matching methods. -- ----------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandles

Re: AIX GNU Make Issue

2001-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
(at least this is my understanding, not having an AIX system to work with) the ability to use the -l option to GNU make, but that's the only effect you should see. HTH. -- ------- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-existent archive member - clock skew?

2001-03-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Please get the latest version (3.79.1). -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain cal

Re: foo has modification time in the future

2001-03-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad

Re: Undocumented stuff in `make'

2001-03-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
to make and searching the output for VAR; you'll find a variable "VAR ?" defined, but no variable named "VAR". You could also enable --warn-undefined-variables and see that $(VAR) is not defined. -- -------

Re: Implicit rule chain problem

2001-03-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Why are you using double-colon pattern rules? That's your problem. Don't do that. See the GNU make manual for a discussion of what the double-colon rules mean. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find

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