make signal text descriptions

Hello, Could the signals and errors that Make displays include the text description of them? The same way that other programs do not return the errno.h value, but the text that it corresponds too. Let me know if you would like to implement this for make. Kind regards JG e.g.: Signal 127 z:\b

Re: make signal text descriptions

%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jg> Could the signals and errors that Make displays include the text jg> description of them? The same way that other programs do not jg> return the errno.h value, but the text that it corresponds too. jg> e.g.: jg> Signal 127 GNU make does p

RE: makefile:71: *** Recursive variable `LIBS' references itself (eventually). Stop

There are two types of assignments. LIBS= file.a Result in late evaluation. What is to the right of '=' is evaluated only when LIBS is referenced. With late evaluation a variable cannot reference itself - that the problem you see. Late evaluation is required when for example using the follow