say what will happen when one combines -n and -s

2011-04-12 Thread jidanni
On (info (make) Echoing) (info (make) Options Summary) explicitly say what will happen when one combines -n and -s. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: [PATCH] Options: `--dry-run' should prevent `--touch' from touching

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:49 -0500, Michael Witten wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 00:00, Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 03:52 -0500, Michael Witten wrote: Thus, it makes most sense for `--dry-run' (`-n') to mask `--touch' (`-t') rather than the other way around

patch to support output synchronization under -j

2011-04-12 Thread David Boyce
I recently wrote a little program called syncsh (https://github.com/boyski/SYNCSH) to synchronize the output of make -j such that the results of a given job stay together. It's based on ideas from a few posts on this list and an old Ask Mr Make article