The NEWS file for make 3.81 doesn't have anything that I can really relate to the problem. However it would be nice to check if upgrading make on your machine solves this particular problem. Or did I miss that someone else had troubles with 3.81?
Francois On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:39:40 kcrisman wrote: > On Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:30:29 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: > > On Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:56:21 AM UTC-4, Ivan Andrus wrote: > >> I haven’t really followed the discussion, but if the problem is because > >> of lines in the Makefile like > >> > >> -include > >> > >> then you should be able to just add a dummy file on that line so that > >> it’s > >> > >> -include dummy.mk … > >> > >> where the … is of course the expression that will sometimes be empty. > >> > >> But it’s also not hard to check for the existence of a directory. > >> > >> -Ivan > > > > I think the problem is that we don't even know that this *is* the problem > > (see Leif's reply in the other thread on beta4). Is there any way to > > easily check the differences between make 3.80 and 3.81 on this issue? I > > assume that people building with 3.81 don't see these warning messages. > > > > I think *if* this is the problem, then Ivan's solution of having this > > include line only added if there is a profile/ directory makes sense, as > > the syntax probably is fairly standard. > > Neither of http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/whats-new-gnu-make-381 and > https://notendur.hi.is/jonasson/software/make-book/make-news.pdf seem to > have something that immediately shows this problem, though. The full > list of bugs does have the thing where -include with an empty or false list > continues (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?13216) is fixed in 3.81, > would this be enough to cause the problems in question? Unfortunately I > don't see a link to the actual diff. http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29074 > and http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27396 seem relevant but were never > actually dealt with, and http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?102 is a really old > version of something related... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
