On 14 Apr 2010, at 7:39 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:34 -0500, Lane Schwartz wrote: >> This works, but feels deeply hackish. Looking through the email >> archives, it looks like this is a fairly common problem. I would be >> very interested in adding a feature to allow multiple targets to >> explicitly be associated as outputs of a single command. What is the >> best process for requesting such a feature, or for submitting a patch >> to that effect? > > Hi Lane. In order to submit new code to GNU make, this is the process: > > 1. You must assign copyright of your changes over to the FSF. If > you are employed then typically you'll need to get paperwork > signed by your employer as well because they usually have rights > to whatever you've created. I can help you with this. This can > proceed in the background as it usually takes a few weeks or so. > 2. You should discuss the solution you envision, especially since > it's user-visible, on the mailing list. Note there have been > suggestions for syntax, etc. for this feature both on this list > and on make-alpha, and in fact I believe someone was already > working on it a number of years ago, but I'm not sure to what > end. I can point you to some threads in the archives or you can > search for them.
Paul, Thank you very much for the reply. That's exactly what I was looking for. If you happen to know where to find the previous discussions with regard to this idea, especially previously proposed syntax, that would be great. If not, I can take a look through the archives. I'm not familiar with make-alpha. What is that? Lane _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
