Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Jaen Saul
Well, another small post again :) As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still broken. The -C way doesn't work. ---snip--- Usage: NMAKE @commandfile NMAKE [options] [/f makefile] [/x stderrfile] [macrodefs] [targets] Options: /A Build all evaluated targets /B

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: Well, another small post again :) As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still broken. The -C way doesn't work. VMS is broken this way too, as is anything without GNU make. We'll get your patches integrated in soon, and a

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: Well, another small post again :) As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still broken. The -C way doesn't work. VMS is broken this way too, as is anything

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:39 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: Well, another small post again :) As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still broken. The -C way

RE: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: # At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: # Well, another small post again :) # As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So # Win32 is still # broken. The -C way doesn't work. # # VMS is

RE: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:14 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Thinking about it, this could be implemented as a source filter. target(foo.$o, sub {print yup}, depends = [bar.$o, baz.c]); #other targets here do_the_make_stuff(); A P::RD grammar would probably handle that quite

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Robert Spier
| patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) | should be ready not too long after that. bool query { Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system where you want to be today? } -R

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:40 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: | patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) | should be ready not too long after that. bool query { Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system where you want to be today? } Perl, yes. At the

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff G
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 05:40 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: | patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) | should be ready not too long after that. bool query { Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system where you want to be