Re: getting warmer error messages

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

Re: tkConfig

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 23:43 -0500, Shannon Coffey wrote: > I am attempting to compile GCL on a Macintosh. This list is for bugs with the GNU make program itself. If you're having problems building some particular software you should find a mailing list dedicated to that software and ask there f

Re: files with : in their names

On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 23:58 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Doesn't look like I will get anywhere with filenames with colons in them: > mkallexisting:.???.t .*[:-]*.t .Current_events.t > Makefile:107: *** multiple target patterns. Stop https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?112 --

Re: getting warmer error messages

> it fails with a message saying that target cannot > be built. That's close to what it says but the OP's right that, strictly speaking, the message make produces isn't actually true. If it said "no rule whose prerequisites can be built to make target" then it would be true but verbose. I ca

[bug #18617] Better debugging facilities: tracing rule invocation.

URL: Summary: Better debugging facilities: tracing rule invocation. Project: make Submitted by: None Submitted on: Thursday 12/28/06 at 14:46 UTC Severity: 3 - Normal It

[bug #18622] regression cannot turn off implicit rules for %.c and %.tex in 3.81

URL: Summary: regression cannot turn off implicit rules for %.c and %.tex in 3.81 Project: make Submitted by: None Submitted on: Thursday 12/28/2006 at 22:26 UTC Severity: 3 - Normal