Documentation Bug in Parallel Execution Section

2007-06-21 Thread Isaac Dooley
The manual has a problem in its Parallel Execution section. It says the following: GNU |make| knows how to execute several commands at once. Normally, |make| will execute only one command at a time, waiting for it to finish before executing the next. However, the `-j' or `--jobs' opt

RE: Problems with gmake and pipefail. make doesn't give up.

2007-06-21 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Hi, /bin/ksh is not a Korn shell on our system. It is AT&T sh (version 1993-12-28 p). This shell supports pipefail, but apparently not correctly. $? is set correctly, but somehow gnu-make doesn't catch it. /bin/sh on our system is bash 2.05, this one doesn't support pipefail. The adminstrators

[bug #19108] Pattern rules with multiple target patterns do not honor the dependencies of all targets correctly

2007-06-21 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #19108 (project make): I think I'm seeing some symptoms that are essentially the same bug. I'm using make 3.80. I have a rule that generates N targets from some dependencies using a set of commands, setup just like the original poster. If I run "make", everything is fi