encoding problem with ezwinports make but not msys make

2017-03-09 Thread Tomas Nordin
Hi Make At work on a windows machine I have two versions of make. One from the ezwinports and one installed via the msys2 pacman package manager. Using text including non-ascii works fine with the latter but not the former. Below an attempt to describe what happens: 8< @ MSYS ~/sl

Empty recipes handling

2017-03-09 Thread Marcin Świgoń
Dear Make experts, I stumbled upon make behavior that bothers me a lot. I was looking through Make documentation and closest description I've found was: "Empty recipes can also be used to avoid errors for targets that will be created as a side-effect of another recipe: if the target does not exis

Re: Empty recipes handling

2017-03-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 23:15 +0100, Marcin Świgoń wrote: > I stumbled upon make behavior that bothers me a lot. I was looking > through Make documentation and closest description I've found was: I don't understand what information you would like from us.  Do you have a question?  A suggestion for a

Re: encoding problem with ezwinports make but not msys make

2017-03-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Tomas Nordin > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:33:58 +0100 > > At work on a windows machine I have two versions of make. One from the > ezwinports and one installed via the msys2 pacman package manager. Using > text including non-ascii works fine with the latter but not the former. > Below an a