Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-03-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/11/2013 01:05 PM, Bert Wesarg wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: >> On 03/11/2013 10:31 AM, Bert Wesarg wrote: >>> I have the impression that variable references in filenames aren't >>> supported anyway, right? >>> >> Wrong, actually. > > But when I prefix

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-03-11 Thread Bert Wesarg
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 03/11/2013 10:31 AM, Bert Wesarg wrote: >> I have the impression that variable references in filenames aren't >> supported anyway, right? >> > Wrong, actually. But when I prefixing a source file with '$(src)/' and use subdir-objects

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-03-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/11/2013 10:31 AM, Bert Wesarg wrote: > Hi, > > I have one more question here: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: >> On 02/14/2013 01:20 PM, Bert Wesarg wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> What definitily will no

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-03-11 Thread Bert Wesarg
Hi, I have one more question here: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 02/14/2013 01:20 PM, Bert Wesarg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> What definitily will not work ist something like this, right? >> >> here = %reldir%

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/14/2013 08:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >>> A substantial blocker for converting large packages to non-recursive >>> builds will be eliminated. Considerable time and electricity will >>> be saved. >> >> By chance, do you plan to start using

Re: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: A substantial blocker for converting large packages to non-recursive builds will be eliminated. Considerable time and electricity will be saved. By chance, do you plan to start using the feature in some package of yours, even before it lands in a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/14/2013 03:53 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> From: Peter Rosin >> >> The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have >> to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. >> For deep directory structures these repea

Re: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: From: Peter Rosin The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot of bloat. It also hinders reuse and easy

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/14/2013 01:20 PM, Bert Wesarg wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS >> index 6dcce72..e27e0cf 100644 >> --- a/NEWS >> +++ b/NEWS >> @@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ New in 1.13.2: >> be longer necessary, so we deprecate it with run

Re: bug#13524: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Bert Wesarg
Hi, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > From: Peter Rosin > > The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have > to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. > For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot > of bloat. It

[PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
From: Peter Rosin The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot of bloat. It also hinders reuse and easy directory restructuring if all Makefile fragment

[PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot of bloat. It also hinders reuse and easy directory restructuring if all Makefile fragments have to know exact