RE: Manual isn't clear about where $(error) and $(warning) write to

2007-09-28 Thread lasse.makholm
Marty Leisner wrote: >Also, "Functions That Control Make" doesn't seem to be accurate >(only $(error) controls make -- perhaps > >"Functions to Display Information/Control Make" How about simply "Diagnostic Functions"? /Lasse ___ Bug-make mailing

RE: File timing bug

2008-06-11 Thread lasse.makholm
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of ext Martin Dorey >Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 21:29 >To: Herbert Euler; bug-make@gnu.org >Subject: RE: File timing bug > >(I know from experience that you have to tell make about when >you update >t

RE: Makefile doesnt stop for non zero error codes

2008-06-25 Thread lasse.makholm
-k ? http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Testing Another possiblity is a command script that unexpectedly returns true. E.g.: foo: gcc ... || true ...will never fail even if gcc fails... /Lasse From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [bug #23928] Add MAKEFILE variable

2008-07-28 Thread lasse.makholm
Philip Guenther wrote: >BTW, $(lastword ${MAKEFILE_LIST}) is _not_ always the makefile >being parsed >at that moment, particularly when there's an 'include' >directive earlier in >the makefile. There's in fact no 100% general and reliable >way to get the >name of the file that's being parsed.

RE: GNU make to consider files checksum

2009-10-05 Thread lasse.makholm
Tim Murphy wrote: > I think that checksumming might benefit some targets. It would be > nice to be able to implement different "methods" for different targets > - because not all methods work well in all circumstances. > I have one example where every single file in a huge build includes 1 > par

RE: interactive shell is incorrect

2003-06-06 Thread lasse.makholm
> -Original Message- > From: ext David Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:52 AM > To: 'Paul D. Smith' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: interactive shell is incorrect > > > > [snip] > >Can you help suggest experiments? > > Maybe this shows the pr

RE: make error with pro*c redhat 7.2

2003-06-06 Thread lasse.makholm
>From http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_mono/make.html#SEC124 : `[foo] signal description' These errors are not really make errors at all. They mean that a program that make invoked as part of a command script returned a non-0 error code (`Error NN'), which make interprets as failure,

RE: Path to binary in --help or --version

2003-07-08 Thread lasse.makholm
> -Original Message- > From: ext Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 AM > To: J. Grant > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Path to binary in --help or --version [SNIP] > I'm still not very clear on why you want the path to make. > It seems to

Target specific immediate append operator not working as expected

2006-02-20 Thread lasse.makholm
There is some weirdness going on with the append operator and target-specific contexts. The append operator should act immediately if the variable was originally assigned with an immediate assignment but this does not happen if the variable was globally assigned and the append is target-specific,

RE: [bug #18680] fix for bug#2846 does not work as expected, still hang sometimes

2007-01-05 Thread lasse.makholm
>Update of bug #18680 (project make): >Follow-up Comment #1: > >Doh! Silly. As a lame excuse I'll mention that the original >fix was for >situations where errno was not 0 _before_ invoking the macro, >not where it >was set to 0 inside the macro. However it should have been >obvious that th

RE: [bug #18680] fix for bug#2846 does not work as expected, stillhang sometimes

2007-01-05 Thread lasse.makholm
>> >Fix applied. >> >> Could you commit the fix into CVS? > >I definitely can, but is that really useful? The current state of the >CVS HEAD is pretty pre-alpha: it's right in the middle of a lot of code >rework. > >It seems to me that the safest thing is to apply the simple patch >attached to t

RE: EAGAIN in "read jobs pipe"

2007-01-10 Thread lasse.makholm
>Noticed something else. > >Something else completely pointless! > > must not be > 16385 True, if you have 16 KB pipes... > gmake -j 16386; # or above hang > gmake -j 16385; # or below fire along rapidly Because you're trying to write more into the job tokens pipe than it can hold... You app