On Sunday 12 July 2020 17:40:56 John Ericson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >
> > But why is this change needed at all? Are there some bugs in GNU make so
> > that macros/variables initialized by '=' cannot be overridden and
> > initialization with '?=' is fixing
On 12/07/2020 18:53, John Ericson wrote:
> Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
>
> Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we can work
> around this other ways. But it was I who proposed the ?= change on our
> side[1], so let say why I think it's the right choice:
>
>
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>
> But why is this change needed at all? Are there some bugs in GNU make so
> that macros/variables initialized by '=' cannot be overridden and
> initialization with '?=' is fixing those bugs?
Definitions with = can still be overridden on the
On Sunday 12 July 2020 22:19:42 Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 09:05:17PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 July 2020 13:53:11 John Ericson wrote:
> > > Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
> > >
> > > Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we
> > >
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 09:05:17PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Sunday 12 July 2020 13:53:11 John Ericson wrote:
> > Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
> >
> > Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we
> > can work around this other ways. But it was I who proposed the ?=
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> "FOO ?= foo" syntax is not supported by POSIX make:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
>
> And requires some GNU Make extension.
>
> I guess because dnsmasq is supported also on non-GNU Make systems, it
>
On Sunday 12 July 2020 13:53:11 John Ericson wrote:
> Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
>
> Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we can work
> around this other ways. But it was I who proposed the ?= change on our
> side[1], so let say why I think it's the right
Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we can work
around this other ways. But it was I who proposed the ?= change on our side[1],
so let say why I think it's the right choice:
Most C packages don't use "?=" and do
FOO ?= foo
but
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 07:33:07PM +0200, john doe wrote:
> On 7/11/2020 4:17 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 02:33:36PM +0200, betaboon wrote:
> > > Hello Simon, hello everyone.
> > >
> > > when cross-compiling dnsmasq for armv7 in nixos we ran into the
> > > Makefile not
On 7/11/2020 4:17 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 02:33:36PM +0200, betaboon wrote:
Hello Simon, hello everyone.
when cross-compiling dnsmasq for armv7 in nixos we ran into the
Makefile not picking up the variables properly.
for now we are maintaining the attached patch in
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 02:33:36PM +0200, betaboon wrote:
> Hello Simon, hello everyone.
>
> when cross-compiling dnsmasq for armv7 in nixos we ran into the
> Makefile not picking up the variables properly.
>
> for now we are maintaining the attached patch in our package-tree to
> get around
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