Re: Idea: --only-make-prerequisites

2019-01-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "EW" == Edward Welbourne writes: EW> The command-line option would save the need to edit the make-file to be EW> ready to be used this way, which would be welcome when the make-files EW> aren't familiar (especially if they're auto-generated and numerous). Or part of a giant read-only

Re: Idea: --only-make-prerequisites

2019-01-18 Thread Edward Welbourne
Dan Jacobson (18 January 2019 08:49) > --only-make-prerequisites is for folks that want to check and get > things ready first, before the President arrives for the button > pushing ceremony. I can see other uses for it ;^> When I'm hacking on code, and intend to hack some more, it's sometimes

Idea: --only-make-prerequisites

2019-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Idea: --only-make-prerequisites So $ make --only-make-prerequisites netsift would only make myconfdir/$J.pre myconfdir/$J.cf and stop before the second line of netsift:myconfdir/$J.pre myconfdir/$J.cf cat zz > yy ln q r /etc --only-make-prerequisites is for folks that w