2008/3/19, Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat Jan 26 10:03:34 2008, coke wrote: > > On Mon Jan 14 11:26:27 2008, coke wrote: > > > In the top level directory, type: > > > > > > 'make perl6' > > > > > > a perl6 binary is created. > > > > > > now type "make perl6" again, and the binary is regenerated from the > > > step "./pbc_to_exe languages/perl6/perl6.pbc" on, despite the fact > > > that nothing has changed. > > > > > > The perl6 target in languages/perl6 works as expected over multiple > > > invocations. > > > > > > > This seems to be resolved, however, building perl6 now gives the > > following make warning: > > > > make: Circular perl6 <- perl6 dependency dropped. > > > > > > This seems to be because we have both: > > perl6: > > and > > PERL6 = $(CUR_DIR)/perl6$(EXE) > $(PERL6) : compilers $(PBC_TO_EXE) > > ... So on windows, I'm guessing that both perl6 and perl6.exe work as > targets with no > warnings, but on unixy platforms, we get the warning. > > I would vote for requiring "perl6.exe" as the make target on windows, which > is how it's done > in languages/perl6.
I like the idea of make perl6 only on windows. make perl6.exe is just a file, make perl6 is a whole new world :) One could ifdef WINDIR perl6 : $(PERL6) endif for the GNU-style makefile on cygwin and with the appropriate nmake syntax on MSWin32 -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
