Re: What is the reason for gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs?

2015-02-09 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/06/2015 12:58 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com wrote: Asking because I see no good reason for it and it repeatedly gets in my way with its two major drawbacks: I think the goal was to avoid hitting commandline limits on

Re: What is the reason for gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs?

2015-02-09 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/07/2015 11:37 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:22:04PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: For another, it makes it more tedious to copy/modify/paste make (w/o -s) output for some little one-off things like asking the compiler to produce -S instead of -c output for some

Re: What is the reason for gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs?

2015-02-07 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:22:04PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: For another, it makes it more tedious to copy/modify/paste make (w/o -s) output for some little one-off things like asking the compiler to produce -S instead of -c output for some .cxx. How so exactly? I remember from when I

Re: What is the reason for gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs?

2015-02-06 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Stephan, *, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com wrote: Asking because I see no good reason for it and it repeatedly gets in my way with its two major drawbacks: I think the goal was to avoid hitting commandline limits on windows - where the build indeed did

What is the reason for gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs?

2015-02-04 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Asking because I see no good reason for it and it repeatedly gets in my way with its two major drawbacks: For one, it prevents use of '...' instead of ... in certain places in recipes where the former would flow much more naturally from the fingers. For another, it makes it more tedious to