Makefile bug - 3.78.1

2000-03-16 Thread Reid Madsen
Given the following Makefile: # Default variable values TESTS=default FOO=default BAR=default # Target specific variable values tests: TESTS=specific foo: FOO=specific bar: BAR=specific # Rules tests: foo foo: bar bar: @echo $(TESTS) $(FO

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2000-03-16 Thread port22
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Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-16 Thread Mohan Krishnan
Hi Paul: Thanks for the reply. I think MS Outlook is converting my mail to HTML. I hope this one ends up in plain text. Problem 1) On NT this doesn't work even if the timestamp of the dependency is newer by a day! I think it is a bug in the windows port. Problem 2) I got this working with

A temp fix for the Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-16 Thread Tianmiao Hu
Hi, This is Tianmiao again. I browsed through the vpath.c and pathstuff.c and figured out a temp solution for the bug I reported. Here are my modified files. I put a comment line before all my changes. The comment line contains the word "Tianmiao". Basically, I have created a w32ftob() fu

Re[2]: Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-16 Thread Tianmiao Hu
Hi, I read the "How not to use VPATH" on your website. I think there is still a problem with this particular windows 32 port. In my example, I am using VPATH to find both source and target(it is a bad idea). But indeed make found both source and target through VPATH. THE PROBLEM is the retur

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Mohan Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi; please don't send HTML to the list, thanks! mk> I hv make version 3.78.1 on NT. mk> 1) make reports "nothing to make" even though the target has mk> changed. Same test works fine on Solaris. I am attaching a small mk> test Makefile wi