Re: [bug #57674] regression in make 4.3 with makefile from stdin

2020-03-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Natanael Copa wrote: > > (I tried to send this to bug-make@gnu.org but is seems to have been redirected > to /dev/null by some spam filter or similar) Your other messages came through okay. So I don't know why you would have been lost messages. In the

[bug #57674] GNU make doesn't use default path if PATH not set

2020-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #57674 (project make): Summary: regression in make 4.3 with makefile from stdin => GNU make doesn't use default path if PATH not set ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #57674] regression in make 4.3 with makefile from stdin

2020-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57674 (project make): I know why this happens. In GNU make prior to 4.3 we used the execvp() system call to invoke commands. This call behaves like this (from the man page): > The file is sought in the colon-separated list of directory pathnames > specified in the

[bug #57914] abspath does resolve symlink

2020-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #57914 (project make): Status:None => Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #6: Just as another proof

[bug #57914] abspath does resolve symlink

2020-03-31 Thread Martin Dorey
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #57914 (project make): I haven't seen half the mails relating to this bug, which might explain how it lay unloved for so long. I don't think I'm really adding anything to Boyski's posts, which I hadn't seen (and they aren't in my "spam folder"), but here's a

[bug #57914] abspath does resolve symlink

2020-03-31 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #57914 (project make): Hi, thanks so much for your quick reply and detailed explanation! For my understanding I added: /tmp/57914/subdir -> . and found correctly: make -f subdir/Makefile $(abspath subdir/Makefile) == /tmp/57914/subdir/Makefile as well as my

Do I need to update bug #57914: abspath does resolve symlink?

2020-03-31 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, An month ago I created a ticket on Savannah[1] that abspath does resolve symlinks like realpath, but documentation states that it does not do so. Was it sufficient to just create it or do I need to do anything else (assign it somehow or so)? I think it could also be likely that I