Your message dated Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:21:22 +0000 with message-id <20160216-132121.sv10516.78...@savannah.gnu.org> has caused the report #620211, regarding make: it would be nice to get -R behavior using a directive inside a Makefile to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s)
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--- Begin Message ---URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47170> Summary: make: it would be nice to get -R behavior using a directive inside a Makefile Project: make Submitted by: srivasta Submitted on: Tue 16 Feb 2016 01:21:20 PM CST Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Enhancement Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Component Version: None Operating System: Any Fixed Release: None Triage Status: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Hi, This was reported by a debian user. Please retain a CC to 620211-forwar...@bugs.debian.org so that the Debian BTS has a copy of your input. What I do now is: HAVE_NO_BUILTIN_VARIABLES_OPTION := $(shell echo $(MAKEFLAGS) | grep -e R) ifndef HAVE_NO_BUILTIN_VARIABLES_OPTION $(error This makefile requires use of the -R/--no-builtin-variables option) endif which forces users of the makefile to do it. But there should be a way to just do this from with the Makefile. The implicit rules and default variable values represent the cruft of a bygone era and aren't worth all the trouble and confusion they cause. And they were an ironic and bad idea to begin with, since by definition and convention firm enough to merit them is just going to get put in somebodies IDE anyway: make is useful for the strange stuff and the custom work. Manoj _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47170> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
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