URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35384>
Summary: Request for a "writefile" function
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Fri 27 Jan 2012 04:08:51 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 3.82
Operating System: None
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
This patch adds a "writefile" function. This is similar to the existing "info"
function, except that it writes to a file.
This is useful when you have a Make variable whose value is larger than the
OS-imposed limit on the maximum size of a command line, and you need to pass
this value to a target. While there are workarounds, they are either slow or
don't work in the general case. For example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/512567/create-a-file-from-a-large-makefile-variable
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7247667/writing-contents-of-makefile-131000-chars-variable-to-a-file
The "writefile" function also avoids another problem with passing arbitrary
strings through as command-line arguments: it avoids the need to escape shell
control characters.
The patch is against 3.82. Please apply it. It's small, it's localized, and it
helps Make scale to large build environments.
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