Re: Behaviour when using both "--dry-run" and "--always-make" together

2021-06-06 Thread Karl Berry
So I beleive the conclusion here is that "--always-make" is not really compatible with autotools at the moment (or perhaps self-referential makefiles in general?) Sounds plausible to me. I'll add a note in the automake manual about this. Can't think of anything else feasible to do. --

Re: Behaviour when using both "--dry-run" and "--always-make" together

2021-06-06 Thread Johan Persson
On 2021-06-02 00:56, Karl Berry wrote: Hi Johan, make --dry-run --always-make I'm somehow amazed these two options work together at all. They seem mutually unintelligible. In any case, it's the first time I've heard of this, so I don't have a best (or any) practice to suggest. Sorry. Maybe

Re: Behaviour when using both "--dry-run" and "--always-make" together

2021-06-01 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Johan, make --dry-run --always-make I'm somehow amazed these two options work together at all. They seem mutually unintelligible. In any case, it's the first time I've heard of this, so I don't have a best (or any) practice to suggest. Sorry. Maybe someone else here has some ideas. I ima

Behaviour when using both "--dry-run" and "--always-make" together

2021-06-01 Thread Johan Persson
I stumbled upon an issue when I recently switched to VSCode as editor. I have several projects that have a full (medium-complex+) autotool setup and they all work fine. However I discovered that VSCode in order to initialize starts by running make --dry-run --always-make as first time initial