is this a bug or intended behavior

2007-08-03 Thread Samuel Klatchko
I have the following Makefile: foo: bar @echo While building $@ MACRO = ${MACRO} foo: MACRO += foo_specific bar: @echo While building $@ MACRO = ${MACRO} bar: MACRO += bar_specific MACRO = common I would expect to get th

problem with GNU make configure

2007-08-03 Thread faroughi
Hi, I am trying to configure GNU make from cygwin and ./configure doesn't run. I have attached the cygwin console capture with the error. I have installed this two years ago without any problems. Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks Nik Faroughi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: problem with GNU make configure

2007-08-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:52:53 -0700 (PDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am trying to configure GNU make from cygwin and ./configure doesn't run. > I have attached the cygwin console capture with the error. I see no attachments. ___ Bug-make maili

Re: problem with GNU make configure

2007-08-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:55:15 -0700 (PDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > oops, here is the attached console capture It's much better to send this as plain text (you can capture it with `tee' or even by copying and pasting the contents into your mailer). My crystal ball says that somehow the co

Re: is this a bug or intended behavior

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:45 -0700, Samuel Klatchko wrote: > The real use case is when I have a Makefile that is building both an > shared object and an executable that uses it. I want to factor LDLIBS > into common libraries that both use and specific libraries that are > only for the shared objec

Re: is this a bug or intended behavior

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:45 -0700, Samuel Klatchko wrote: > Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding how target specific variables > work. The latter. See the section in the GNU make manual 'Target-specific Variable Values' and read the part starting with "There is one more special feature of targe

Re: problem with GNU make configure

2007-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:08:54AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:55:15 -0700 (PDT) >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> oops, here is the attached console capture > >It's much better to send this as plain text (you can capture it with >`tee' or even by copying and pasting the