gmake feature (enhancement)

2018-01-24 Thread Phi Debian
Hi All, First post here, if I should not post here tell me gently :) I am new to gmake (coming from the old unix world) and gmake is really conveniant to work with. I am not too fluent though, so may be my enhancement suggestion are already adressed but didn't find the answer. I'd like 2 things

Re: gmake feature (enhancement)

2018-01-24 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Paul, Thanx tons for the prompt reply. Ouch I was running 4.1 :) , will wait next distro roll :) Cheers, Phi ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: gmake feature (enhancement)

2018-01-24 Thread Phi Debian
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > The support for adding --no-print-directory to MAKEFLAGS works now, and > has for a very long time. > > It's only the -j option being added to MAKEFLAGS that needs 4.2 and > above. Oops, confirmed, the MAKEFLAGS+=--no-print-directory works at 4

Get rid of call function

2018-05-29 Thread Phi Debian
Hi All, I don't know if this has been discussed before, I tried to dig into the mail archive but didn't found any hit. I love the function like macro's (variables) :) and I was wondering if we could think about an enhancement were we could avoid the 'call' name in the call sequence. I got the im