[bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2023-01-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #62936 (project make): Status:None => Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: I reread this

Re: [bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 21:13 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2022, 20:33 Paul Smith, wrote: > > "Updating a target" has a well-defined meaning that's used > > everywhere in the documentation and the mailing lists etc., and > > it's also the term used everywhere in the POSIX spec for the

Re: [bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-10-23 Thread Tim Murphy
On Sat, 22 Oct 2022, 20:33 Paul Smith, wrote: > On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 07:28 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote: > > Outside of make "update" implies existence - we use CRUD as a term > > for example not RUD. Why redefine the language? Actually for > > databases the word "upsert" has been invented to

Re: [bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 07:28 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote: > Outside of make "update" implies existence - we use CRUD as a term > for example not RUD.  Why redefine the language? Actually for > databases the word "upsert" has been invented to explain a roughly > analagous situation is going on - perhaps

Re: [bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-10-19 Thread Tim Murphy
On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 at 23:57, Paul D. Smith wrote: > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #62936 (project make): > > I don't know why you say "you cannot update a non-existing file": make does > this all the time! When you start make in a clean directory there are no > object files, for example, and so

[bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-10-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #62936 (project make): I don't know why you say "you cannot update a non-existing file": make does this all the time! When you start make in a clean directory there are no object files, for example, and so those files are non-existing but yet of course make will still

Re: [bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-08-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi Konrad, > Trying to understand a bug in my Makefile, I consulted the manual > section on chained rules > (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Chained-Rules.html#Chained-Rules) > and found the following paragraph, which is more confusing than > helpful: >> The first difference

[bug #62936] Confusing description of chained rules in the manual

2022-08-22 Thread anonymous
URL: Summary: Confusing description of chained rules in the manual Project: make Submitter: None Submitted: Mon 22 Aug 2022 09:05:20 AM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal