Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2009-03-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, while reviewing the threads about this topic, I found this: * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:47:36PM CET: On Monday 2008-12-22 22:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/9995 ] I haven't found another way yet.

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2009-03-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2009-03-08 10:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Another minor issue I don't quite like yet: before this change, the code was quite carefully laid out to be performant in the generic fastdep case: GNU make can avoid spawning a shell for a command, when the command line to be executed can

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2008-12-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2008-12-22 22:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/9995 ] But it is still not POSIX compliant (neither 2001 nor 2008). Sigh. There's a nice set of C functions that are all posixly standard, but getting restricted so hard by the

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2008-12-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/9995 ] First, a couple of general comments: in order for a patch to be applicable, it needs - to be based against git master, - have a ChangeLog entry, - add new tests for new functionality and/or for bugs fixed, - pass the