Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff G
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 05:40 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: > >| patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) > >| should be ready not too long after that. > > > >bool query { > > Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system > >where you wa

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:40 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: >| patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) >| should be ready not too long after that. > >bool query { > Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system >where you want to be today? >} Perl, yes. At the

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Robert Spier
| patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) | should be ready not too long after that. bool query { Dan, you've been unclear. Is a perl5 based make system where you want to be today? } -R

RE: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:14 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: >Thinking about it, this could be implemented as a source filter. > > target("foo.$o", sub {print "yup"}, depends => ["bar.$o", "baz.c"]); > #other targets here > do_the_make_stuff(); > >A P::RD grammar would probably handle th

RE: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: # > At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: # > >Well, another small post again :) # > >As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So # Win32 is still # > >broken. The -C way doesn't work. # > # > VM

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:39 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: > > >Well, another small post again :) > > >As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still > > >broken. Th

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:58:49PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: > >Well, another small post again :) > >As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still > >broken. The -C way doesn't work. > > VMS is broken this way too, as is an

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:54 PM 12/12/2001 +0200, Jaen Saul wrote: >Well, another small post again :) >As you see, -C doesn't do anything useful on NMAKE. So Win32 is still >broken. The -C way doesn't work. VMS is broken this way too, as is anything without GNU make. We'll get your patches integrated in soon, and a