On 07/20/2013 08:35 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > Good Morning, > > systemd is using .DELETE_ON_ERROR to simplify some rules[1] but the > side-effect is that during make check and a failing test the result > of 'test-suite.log' will be deleted as well. I 'fixed' this by adding > .PRECIOUS: $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) to the file but that is triggering the > following warning: > > Makefile.am:35: warning: user target '.PRECIOUS' defined here ... > /usr/share/automake-1.13/am/configure.am: ... overrides Automake target > '.PRECIOUS' defined here > > Is there a better way to ask automake/make to keep the test-suite.log > around? Is there a way to make the warning go away? > > kind regards > holger > > > [1] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=96bd03d5b8d5d04fc8037c03a43bb5b148cc1e29 > Thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for the shameful delay. I implemented the required improvement with the trivial patch attached. It should appear in Automake 1.15.
Thanks, Stefano
>From f0a7083afefe98aa7aecf4ece592915395947631 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <f0a7083afefe98aa7aecf4ece592915395947631.1388086590.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:31:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allow user to extend .PRECIOUS target References: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012155.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-07/msg00011.html> * bin/automake.in: Adjust to ensure we handle '.PRECIOUS' the same way we do for '.PHONY' and '.MAKE'. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Likewise. * t/precious.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * t/phony.sh: Enhance a little while at it. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Likewise. Reported-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <hol...@freyther.de> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> --- NEWS | 5 +++++ THANKS | 1 + bin/automake.in | 4 ++-- lib/Automake/Rule.pm | 2 +- t/list-of-tests.mk | 1 + t/phony.sh | 1 + t/precious.sh | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 t/precious.sh diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8d902c0..dd2812a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ New in 1.15: implementation of the TAP driver (that is documented in the manual) is more portable and has feature parity with the perl implementation. +* Bug fixes: + + - The user can now extend the special .PRECIOUS target, the same way + he could already do with the .MAKE .and .PHONY targets. + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New in 1.14.1: diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 2b4f8ee..58dac98 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Harlan Stenn harlan.st...@pfcs.com He Li tippa...@yahoo.com Henrik Frystyk Nielsen frys...@w3.org Hib Eris h...@hiberis.nl +Holger Hans Peter Freyther hol...@freyther.de Ian Lance Taylor i...@cygnus.com Ignacy Gawedzki i...@lri.fr ÐлÑÑ Ð. ÐолÑбев g...@mo.msk.ru diff --git a/bin/automake.in b/bin/automake.in index 283d1bb..8808300 100644 --- a/bin/automake.in +++ b/bin/automake.in @@ -4645,9 +4645,9 @@ sub handle_factored_dependencies () # to append dependencies. This would not work if Automake # refrained from defining its own .PHONY target as it does # with other overridden targets. - # Likewise for '.MAKE'. + # Likewise for '.MAKE' and '.PRECIOUS'. my @undefined_conds = (TRUE,); - if ($_ ne '.PHONY' && $_ ne '.MAKE') + if ($_ ne '.PHONY' && $_ ne '.MAKE' && $_ ne '.PRECIOUS') { @undefined_conds = Automake::Rule::define ($_, 'internal', diff --git a/lib/Automake/Rule.pm b/lib/Automake/Rule.pm index a28a78d..5227009 100644 --- a/lib/Automake/Rule.pm +++ b/lib/Automake/Rule.pm @@ -340,8 +340,8 @@ sub reset() # Tarballing. 'dist-all' => [], - # Phonying. '.PHONY' => [], + '.PRECIOUS' => [], # Recursive install targets (so "make -n install" works for BSD Make). '.MAKE' => [], ); diff --git a/t/list-of-tests.mk b/t/list-of-tests.mk index 54afd8f..a9694d8 100644 --- a/t/list-of-tests.mk +++ b/t/list-of-tests.mk @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ t/percent.sh \ t/percent2.sh \ t/per-target-flags.sh \ t/phony.sh \ +t/precious.sh \ t/pluseq.sh \ t/pluseq2.sh \ t/pluseq3.sh \ diff --git a/t/phony.sh b/t/phony.sh index dd0c54a..a632776 100644 --- a/t/phony.sh +++ b/t/phony.sh @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ EOF $ACLOCAL $AUTOMAKE +$FGREP '.PHONY:' Makefile.in # For debugging. test $($FGREP -c '.PHONY:' Makefile.in) -eq 3 : diff --git a/t/precious.sh b/t/precious.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8750305 --- /dev/null +++ b/t/precious.sh @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +# any later version. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +# Make sure .PRECIOUS can be extended by the user, and can be given +# dependencies several times. + +. test-init.sh + +cat >Makefile.am << 'EOF' +.PRECIOUS: foo +.PRECIOUS: bar +EOF + +$ACLOCAL +$AUTOMAKE +$FGREP '.PRECIOUS:' Makefile.in # For debugging. +test $($FGREP -c '.PRECIOUS:' Makefile.in) -eq 3 + +: -- 1.8.5.rc0.335.g7794a68
