URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50413>
Summary: better error message when load ":" requested
Project: make
Submitted by: jjg
Submitted on: Mon 27 Feb 2017 04:44:26 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: None
Operating System: POSIX-Based
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
It seems that in Gnu Make 4.0 (or thereabouts) the target
load : whatever
would attempt to load a shared object called ":" and issue a confusing error
message which looks rather like C++ "could not load:: file not found". Given
that this a recent change in Gnu Make's behaviour (I was bitten by this on an
upgrade from LMDE betsy to Mint Selina), that "make load" is problematic as a
search term, and that make's own documentation used a space between the target
and colon until recently, that when attempting to load a shared object called
":" that a "are you sure that you don't have a space between the target 'load'
and the colon" message is issued. Two lines on C and would be good UX.
Thanks
Jim
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