Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Paul Smith via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 12:01 +, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > I haven't been able to come up with a common initial statement that > is preferable to just describing the two methods separately. So > unless someone else wants to give it a go, I suggest that I should >

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Paul Smith via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 10:48 +, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > > - > > (0005094) psmith (developer) - 2020-11-03 15:23 > > https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325#c5094 > > > > Regarding the

[Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325 == Reported By:dmitry_goncharov Assigned To:

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > > I wrote a blog post about this which may be interesting: > > http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependency-generation/ > > Having read this, I'm now wondering why we are bothering to add > requirements for generating

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> -- > (0005096) psmith (developer) - 2020-11-03 15:31 > https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325#c5096 > -- > Apropos of the example given here: I just

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare wrote, on 04 Nov 2020: > > > > If a target rule or inference rule for the pathname has been parsed > > > before the include line is parsed, make shall use the rule to attempt > > > to create the file or to bring it up-to-date. > > > > I don't think this is quite correct. In GNU make,

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Paul Smith via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 16:47 +, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > Having read this, I'm now wondering why we are bothering to add > requirements for generating include files, if it is no longer the > recommended way of doing things. There are other uses for

[Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325 == Reported By:dmitry_goncharov Assigned To:

[Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325 == Reported By:dmitry_goncharov Assigned To:

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Paul Smith via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 18:05 +0100, Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > I am not sure whether I missed something, but I cannot see a method > that may work in a portable way and unless I missed something, I see > no new idea that makes things really better than what we are

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001325]: Allow make to remake an included file

2020-11-04 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> -- > (0005094) psmith (developer) - 2020-11-03 15:23 > https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1325#c5094 > -- > Thank you for all your effort Geoff! I