On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, David wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > is there a list
> > somewhere of such idioms and style recommendations?
>
> There's this, if you haven't seen it:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html#
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, David wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > my suggestion was, for any targets for which it is feasible to
> > invoke directly, add a redirection(?) target with a meaningful name:
> >
> > turn_src_into_elf: $(OUTPUT_DIR)/target.elf
>
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 10:18 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i'm looking at someone else's Makefile, and it is replete with
> > targets whose names begin with a period. i'm aware of the property
> > that such targets will not be considered as the defaul
junior colleague who is just learning make and is going through make
manual asked me the other day (regarding section 2.3 in manual) about
this passage:
"By default, make starts with the first target (not targets whose
names start with ‘.’). This is called the default goal. (Goals are the
targ
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 22:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[...]
> "By default, make starts with the first target (not targets whose
> names start with ‘.’). This is called the default goal. (Goals are the
> targets that make strives ultimately to update ..."
>
> the question was, "what is the differe
On 11/1/19 8:49 PM, David wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[...]
is there a list
somewhere of such idioms and style recommendations?
There's this, if you haven't seen it:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html#Makefile-Convent
Google for "Recursive Make Considered Harmful pdf by Peter Miller". You
will learn a lot, whether you agree or not with the "harmful" assessment.
Martin
On Sat., Nov. 2, 2019, 12:25 Galen Seitz, wrote:
> On 11/1/19 8:49 PM, David wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:08, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Martin d'Anjou wrote:
> Google for "Recursive Make Considered Harmful pdf by Peter Miller".
> You will learn a lot, whether you agree or not with the "harmful"
> assessment.
i read that a while back ... one does not need to agree or disagree
to learn from it.
rday
