Re: GNU make troubleshooting

Minor side point: the "tail +7" option is deprecated by POSIX, replaced by "tail -n+7". Official GNU documentation should preferably follow POSIX. David On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 5:27 PM Bruno Haible wrote: > Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > > > 1) The title, and what does the user want? > > This patch

Re: GNU make troubleshooting

Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > > 1) The title, and what does the user want? > This patch is not a full-fledged troubleshooting guide. ... > > Is that really what I want to do and should do, as a user? > i believe, makefile authors should apply these techniques. OK, then it's appropriate to create

Re: GNU make troubleshooting

> 1) The title, and what does the user want? i guess, users want make to do the minimal amount of work required to fulfil its duties correctly (e.g. track all dependencies, rebuilds, etc). This patch is not a full-fledged troubleshooting guide. This patch describes how to minimize the work that

Re: GNU make troubleshooting

Hello Dmitry, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > >I tried -d a couple of times, and it produced a ton of output, that > >was too much for me to make sense of. Probably 10% to 20% of the > >developers in general have trace filtering skills, that is, know how > >to extract the essential

Re: GNU make troubleshooting

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 2:32 PM Bruno Haible wrote: >I tried -d a couple of times, and it produced a ton of output, that >was too much for me to make sense of. Probably 10% to 20% of the >developers in general have trace filtering skills, that is, know how >to extract the

[bug #64428] Document how to simplify debug output.

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64428 (project make): Paul, please use sv64428_2.diff (the other patch has a typo). ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message

[bug #64428] Document how to simplify debug output.

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[bug #64428] Document how to simplify debug output.

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64428 (project make): This patch documents how to simplify make debug output. (file #54928) ___ Additional Item Attachment: File name: sv64428.diff Size:5 KB

[bug #64428] Document how to simplify debug output.

URL: Summary: Document how to simplify debug output. Group: make Submitter: dgoncharov Submitted: Sat 15 Jul 2023 03:17:03 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item