Hi Paul,
On 2023-08-27 15:52, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 15:47 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> In fact, I'm going to define .SILENT always in the Linux man-pages,
>> since V=1 is just an unnecessary duplicate for --degub=print.
>> I'll make V=1 only have the effect of
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 15:47 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> In fact, I'm going to define .SILENT always in the Linux man-pages,
> since V=1 is just an unnecessary duplicate for --degub=print.
> I'll make V=1 only have the effect of redirecting stderr of certain
> programs.
Just be aware that
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 16:33 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That error code 2 means file not found, and -1 means a command was
> not found or completely failed to run. It is easy to show a couple
> of examples for each one, we see those every day.
That might be true in Windows but it's not the
On 2023-08-27 15:35, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 2023-08-27 15:33, Paul Smith wrote:
>> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 09:26 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>>> Yes, that's a good idea to mention .SILENT.
>>
>> Actually I think I will simply recomment using --debug=print instead as
>> that's simpler.
>
> LGTM.
On 2023-08-27 15:33, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 09:26 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>> Yes, that's a good idea to mention .SILENT.
>
> Actually I think I will simply recomment using --debug=print instead as
> that's simpler.
LGTM. That's much better, as you don't modify the Makefile,
> From: Paul Smith
> Cc: br...@clisp.org, bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:16:59 -0400
>
> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 08:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This checklist is very useful, but to make it even more useful, it
> > lacks two things:
> >
> > . an example of error message that
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 09:26 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Yes, that's a good idea to mention .SILENT.
Actually I think I will simply recomment using --debug=print instead as
that's simpler.
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On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 15:21 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Maybe mention that removing .SILENT: would be necessary, if
> it is defined. Here's what the Linux man-pages makefiles do.
Yes, that's a good idea to mention .SILENT.
I really don't want to get into documenting all the different ways
Hi Paul,
On 2023-08-27 15:16, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 08:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:>
>> Removing @ is not always enough. Many makefiles nowadays need you to
>> say "make V=1" to override the default verbosity level. I suggest to
>> mention that.
>
> What does "V=1" do,
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 08:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This checklist is very useful, but to make it even more useful, it
> lacks two things:
>
> . an example of error message that indicates each kind of problem
> . a cross-reference to where the details are
There is a menu of links to each
Hi Paul,
On 2023-08-26 18:48, Paul Smith wrote:
> I added a new appendix to the GNU make manual for troubleshooting help;
> I haven't pushed it yet. See below. Comments welcome.
>
> I think the outline you provided earlier, Bruno, has the problem that a
> lot of it isn't really about
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