Evaluation of shell functions in recipes

2011-08-14 Thread Stefan Tauner
mal execution starts. this leads to the output (among other things) of "1 4 4 3 4". the expected output is "1 2 3 4" could someone please explain if the observed behavior is "right" and if we just read the docs wrong, or if they *are* wrong. thanks! -- Kind regards

goals starting with a period followed by a slash

2017-02-02 Thread Stefan Tauner
something with the target name is wrong. The actual output shows that the first slash is slashed (pun intended) from the target name (make -d and -p confirms that too): $ make touch tmp/dot touch: cannot touch 'tmp/dot': No such file or directory make: *** [makefile:2: tmp/dot] Erro

Re: goals starting with a period followed by a slash

2017-02-03 Thread Stefan Tauner
On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:36:18 -0500 Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 16:53 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote: > > I don't know why it behaves differently with slashes in the goal and > > would love to hear a rationale for that (and it being mentioned in > > the docume