Måns Ansgariusson writes: > Hello! > > I have an idea of some features I'd like to see in make. I'm no expert at all > regarding make so I hope I don't reinvent the wheel or come with to stupid > ideas. > I'd be happy to implement it but I'm not sure if these are desirable > features or where to start. > > Proposed features: > 1. Saving build information
<snip> Make is stateless by design. It is possible to do what you want with Gnu Make, already, though. See 'Rebuilding when CPPFLAGS changes' in "Gnu Make Unleashed". > > 2. Command execution should inherit from the previous shells in its > dependency > graph <snip> This can be done with 'pattern-specific' and 'target-specific' variables. > 3. Target a specific subsystem > I'm a really lazy bastard and this might be going against the original > idea > of make but here it goes. What if we could target just one subsystem > with a > specific rule given an input parameter to make. > An example: > .... > CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -Wno-format -Wno-parentheses > .... > debug: CFLAGS += -DDEBUG -g > debug: all > ..... > make debug --src=src/subsystem > ..... > Given I have a large software project and I know I have a bug in > a specific subsystem I would like to be able to add the debug options > only > to that specific build system. Again this is perhaps more of a software > solution that the software project by itself take care of but I'm just > throwing the idea out there. > This is accomplished by making a target that will build just 'src/subsystem'. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
