On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:17:58PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Hugo Herbelin wrote[1]: > > > As witnessed by a search on the web, the meaning of the error > > message "Profiling timer expired" is difficult to understand. I > > guess, without being fully sure though, that it is caused by the > > reception of a SIGPROF by make, what (apparently) means that gprof > > has been used in some recipe. Is that correct? If yes, couldn't a > > message like "Received the SIGPROF signal when running recipe" or > > "Received profiling timer expiration from command %s" with the name > > of the command, or whatever you think is better appropriate, be > > preferable. Somehow, the same applies to the "Virtual timer expired" > > message. > > > > The problem has actually been raised on the French translation > > project mailing list, the message being too difficult to understand > > in English to be correctly translated. > > Thoughts? > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/601474
No more that was I proposed (e.g. "Received the SIGPROF signal when running recipe"). I don't know well enough what it does to propose an optimal message. Anyway, if noone has spontaneously an illuminating idea, that's far from a crucial point. Hugo _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
