RE: New conditional assignm ent facility

2024-01-27 Thread rsbecker
On Saturday, January 27, 2024 4:14 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 15:52 -0500, rsbec...@nexbridge.com wrote: >> > I'm interested in peoples' opinions about which of these two >> > implementations they would feel to be more "intuitive" or "correct". >> > Also please consider issues of

Re: make manual feedback

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 21:16 +, David Apps wrote: > I have some feedback about the document at the following address: Thanks for your feedback. I applied all these changes, or some form of them, except: > > Do not install executables here in this directory > > Perhaps delete "here". > > >

[bug #65211] Fix load and loadapi tests.

2024-01-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug#65211 (group make): Thanks Dmitry! ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/

Re: New conditional assignm ent facility

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 15:52 -0500, rsbec...@nexbridge.com wrote: > > I'm interested in peoples' opinions about which of these two > > implementations they would feel to be more "intuitive" or > > "correct". Also please consider issues of "action at a distance" > > where a variable is assigned in

RE: New conditional assignm ent facility

2024-01-27 Thread rsbecker
On Saturday, January 27, 2024 3:33 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 08:15 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: >> Let's step back and I'll try to think more clearly about this. > >Sorry for the delay in replying. > >I can see that I was thinking about this one way but there's another way to >look

Re: New conditional assignment facility

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 08:15 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > Let's step back and I'll try to think more clearly about this. Sorry for the delay in replying. I can see that I was thinking about this one way but there's another way to look at it that I didn't think of. We are talking only about (a)

Re: feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 20:45 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > NB I might perhaps implement such a feature if (and only if) I don't > have any copyright assigment to find. In my GCC contributing > experience fifteen years ago, that administrative step was really > painful. I am too old to start

Re: feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 20:27 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > > It would be great if you could provide examples where these would > > be > > useful, especially examples that are not already covered by the > > output > > of the -p option to GNU Make. > > make -p don't show (unfortunately) the

Re: feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On 1/27/24 20:27, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: On 1/27/24 20:11, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 18:06 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: For non-trivial GNUmakefile-s on Linux it would be nice to have a $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros of GNU make. It would be great if

Re: feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On 1/27/24 20:11, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 18:06 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: For non-trivial GNUmakefile-s on Linux it would be nice to have a $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros of GNU make. It would be great if you could provide examples where these would be

Re: feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 18:06 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > For non-trivial GNUmakefile-s on Linux it would be nice to have a > $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros of GNU make. It would be great if you could provide examples where these would be useful, especially examples that are

feature requests: $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros

2024-01-27 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
Hello For non-trivial GNUmakefile-s on Linux it would be nice to have a $(__FILE__) and $(__LINE__) textual macros of GNU make. They would behave as their equivalent __FILE__ and __LINE__ of the Cpp preprocessor. On Linux Debian trixie/sid x86-64, my GNU make is % /usr/bin/make --version