Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Tromey
Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim Now if that causes real problems, not just esthetics, then of Akim course it ought to be fixed. Sometimes these esthetic considerations are important -- to me anyway. Also, in this case there is a small performance penalty for the existing

Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-01-22 Thread Raja R Harinath
Phil Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Been playing with 1.5 and have been pretty pleased with the support for source files in subdirectories. I have noticed however something which strikes me as odd: % make make all-am make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/pme/foo'

Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-01-22 Thread Phil Edwards
That code is there support non-srcdir builds in the face of 'make's with broken VPATH implementations. Ah, okay. Having never worked with such a 'make' this caught me off guard. Thanks! Phil

Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Tromey
Hari == Raja R Harinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hari That code is there support non-srcdir builds in the face of Hari 'make's with broken VPATH implementations. If you look at the Hari Makefile, you'll see that it is checking to see whether 'make' Hari said that the source file was in

Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-01-22 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Tom == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Tom Even finding a way to reject non-srcdir builds for non-GNU make won't Tom help here. At least it would help to clean up the _implicit_ rules, wouldn't it? Some people seems to not like this at all. The following excerpt comes from

Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

2002-01-22 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hari == Raja R Harinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hari That code is there support non-srcdir builds in the face of Hari 'make's with broken VPATH implementations. If you look at the Hari Makefile, you'll see that it is checking to see whether