Re: getting warmer error messages

2006-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On 12/28/06, Martin Dorey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > there are usually many possible pattern rules > which it MIGHT match, if it could build the > prerequisites An example might help persuade - % is often make-able from %.c - so any list of potentially missing prerequisites would have to

Re: getting warmer error messages

2006-12-28 Thread Martin Dorey
missing prerequisites useful when debugging but perhaps it would be so explosively large that it wouldn't be useful even as an option. I do OK with make -p anyway. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: getting warmer error messages

2006-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
I can only assume you're trying to prove a point by making this bug report virtually unintelligible, with no concrete suggestions for improvement. Well played. Unfortunately for your point, there's a good reason for make's behavior. Pattern rules only match if make can successfully create all th