Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-12-08 Thread Dmitry
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:46 AM Paul Smith wrote: > Maybe if you described the thing you were trying to accomplish or > understand, and what about the documentation made this difficult, we > could come up with a practical example or improve the documentation. Yes, I totally agree with you about

Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-12-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 15:04 +0300, Dmitry wrote: > > > It'll be very good to have some examples with explanations in the > > > docs. > > Maybe so. Concrete suggestions are easy to discuss, like: > > I think this example would saved me a lot of time. > > make -f mkfile > > content of mkfile: >

Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-12-04 Thread Dmitry
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:07 PM wrote: > With all respect, yours is is a baseless complaint - please complain to your > English teacher instead. With all respect, why do you choose the most negligible subject and show me your dominance, professor? What about the other two complaints? Are they

Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-12-03 Thread dima.pasechnik
> > default rules, in which case the documentation could mention SCCS and RCS > > specifically without becoming a maintenance burden. Reading the original > > discussion, though, perhaps the more useful clarification would have been > > to make it explicit that Make has

Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-12-03 Thread Dmitry
t Make has default, built-in make rules, the ones from > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Catalogue-of-Rules. > > > From: Bug-make on behalf of > Dmitry > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 09:51 > To: bug-make@gnu.o

Re: notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
ttps://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Catalogue-of-Rules. From: Bug-make on behalf of Dmitry Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 09:51 To: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: notes about make docs p 3.5 * EXTERNAL EMAIL * Hello, I'm reading GNU make docs and

notes about make docs p 3.5

2020-11-30 Thread Dmitry
Hello, I'm reading GNU make docs and had troubles with understanding paragraph 3.5 . These are some problems which I encountered: 1) make starts with a clean slate-> make starts with a clean sTate 2) It was difficult to understand how make remade makefiles without examples. There is discussion