On 2018-05-21 at 10:56, Paul Smith wrote:
> A few releases ago I made it illegal to create variable names
> containing spaces so the above makefile no longer works. My intention
> at that time was to allow a shorthand for "call" such as you suggest,
> but I haven't made that change yet.
Also,
Le 21/05/2018 à 08h23, Paul Smith a écrit :
> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 08:36 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
>> Then I discovered --load-average, and I’m asking myself wether the
>> optimum is -j n+1, -l 1.0, or -l n or n+1?
> IMO, there are too many problems with choosing any va
On 2018-05-21 at 10:56, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 08:20 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
>> For instance, if there’s an occurence of $(several words) in the
>> makefile, and the variable “several words” isn’t defined (that’s not a
>> natural thing to d
On 2018-05-21 at 11:16, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 08:12 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
>> Also I was wondering… would there be some possible mechanism so that
>> a filename with spaces in it might be appropriatedly treated by
>> implicit rules? or is
Le 21/05/2018 à 13h50, Paul Smith a écrit :
> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 18:17 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
>> On 2018-05-21 at 10:56, Paul Smith wrote:
>> > A few releases ago I made it illegal to create variable names
>> > containing spaces so the above ma
Hi,
I began, for automatic variables containing only one filename, to put
them between simple quotes, and to try to escape my filenames in my
makefiles, so that if one day someone tries to use my makefiles for
files with special chars in them like spaces or quotes.
Also, using quotes is
Why not, like in shell, when some function/variable is undefined, call
an internal one when defined? What’s the historic reason of this?
For instance, if there’s an occurence of $(several words) in the
makefile, and the variable “several words” isn’t defined (that’s not a
natural thing to do
Because parallelism is not enough generalized and people don’t seek it
enough (make is a good example), I long thought it would be a good thing
to have a way to have parallelism activated more easily (or even by
default) in make (or manually by automake or anything of this kind),
until now I think
I was reading make info documentation for the second time since a quite
long time now, and I suppose my english level has improved since this
time this bugged me:
* Variables Simplify:: Variables make makefiles simpler.
After overcoming the doubt caused by the uncommon use of a conjugated
