Re: makeerror-4.4-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-xc2u.tar.gz

2024-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 06:33 +, linha...@163.com wrote: > os: wsl centos7 > > make step: > > wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-4.4.1.tar.gz > tar zxf make-4.4.1.tar.gz > cd make-4.4.1 > ./configure --prefix=/usr > type make > make check The failure is that instead of proceeding norma

[bug #65908] Make fails with 'Makefile:3857: *** missing 'endif'. Stop.

2024-09-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #65908 (group make): Item Group: Bug => Enhancement ___ Follow-up Comment #4: > it would be better that make provides the infos about that line not mis-matched `endif'. Sorry bu

Re: The man and Info pages say different things about make -p

2024-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 05:49 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > The man and Info pages say different things: > To print the data base without trying to remake any files, use 'make > -qp'. > > To print the data base without trying to remake any files, use make - > p -f/dev/null. This was already fixed a

Re: set $*, $@ upon reaching the colon

2024-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 07:55 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > %.all.kmz: $(addsuffix .kml, $(addsuffix .$*.lines,0 1) $(addsuffix > .$*.labels,0 1)) > ls $* > $ make nnn.all.kmz > > Here, upon reaching the colon, the make program already has all the > information it needs to set $* to "nnn". Th