Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > David Boyce writes: > > CLEARTOOL := C:/Progra~1/Rational/ClearCase/bin/cleartool.exe > > That can't be guaranteed to be correct across multiple machines. Or indeed within the same machine, if you ever have to do a full restore -- wh

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread David Boyce
Did I say it was guaranteed to be correct? No, in fact in the very next breath I promoted another solution as being more robust. Note that none of the solutions mentioned are guaranteed to work; e.g. the CC installation allows the default installation path to be changed, so depending on "C:/Pr

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Laine Stump
David Boyce writes: > For the record, there's one option you haven't discussed: > > CLEARTOOL := C:/Progra~1/Rational/ClearCase/bin/cleartool.exe That can't be guaranteed to be correct across multiple machines. If another "long" filename beginning with "Progra" was created on the disk prior to t

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread David Boyce
For the record, there's one option you haven't discussed: CLEARTOOL := C:/Progra~1/Rational/ClearCase/bin/cleartool.exe However, I think getting rid of the full path is the more robust solution. -dsb At 09:38 AM 7/28/00 -0400, Noel L Yap wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.28 02:07:41 > >Tal

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Laird Nelson
Wolfgang Laun wrote: > Nice, but how do you set VARIOUS_FILES when your file names have > embedded spaces? Yeah, this is a problem you can't get around without intervention. Cheers, Laird

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.28 09:22:26 >Wolfgang Laun wrote: >> Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in >> for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in >> path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to >> put q

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.28 02:07:41 >Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in >for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in >path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to >put quotes around all macro expansi

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Laird Nelson
Wolfgang Laun wrote: > Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in > for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in > path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to > put quotes around all macro expansions where one path n

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-27 Thread Wolfgang Laun
Noel L Yap wrote: > > With the advent of (idiotic) paths with spaces in them, it's become important to > deal with them. > Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in path names by using some gene