Re: make trouble

2000-05-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Shawn Matlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sm> Ok this is funny. I want to install gcc. I need a POSIX-compliant sm> make. Aparently mine isn't, so GNU make should work. I doubt your make isn't POSIX compliant. The POSIX definition of make is so anemic almost any program with the letters

make trouble

2000-05-18 Thread Shawn Matlock
Ok this is funny. I want to install gcc. I need a POSIX-compliant make. Aparently mine isn't, so GNU make should work. Well, my make won't make GNU make either. The shell build.sh gives me this: "/usr/include/sys/machsig.h", line 100: macro BUS_OBJERR redefines previous macro at "/usr/ucbinclude/

Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> I'm trying to diagnose a problem I'm having with -j when running on ms> DYNIX/ptx. This Makefile demonstrates the problem I'm having: ms> TARGETS = $(patsubst %.abc,%.xyz,$(wildcard *[0-9].abc)) ms> %.xyz: %.abc ms>

-j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-18 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
I'm trying to diagnose a problem I'm having with -j when running on DYNIX/ptx. This Makefile demonstrates the problem I'm having: --CUT--- TARGETS = $(patsubst %.abc,%.xyz,$(wildcard *[0-9].abc)) %.xyz: %.abc @touch

Re: Not a bug, but a question, not a newbie question either !

2000-05-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Smith, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sj> I was hoping that you could help me with a little issue I am sj> working on. I am trying to write a utility that will analyse a sj> makefile, and create a target 'tree' from it. I think your best bet is to hack GNU make itself; after it fin

Not a bug, but a question, not a newbie question either !

2000-05-18 Thread Smith, Jack
I was hoping that you could help me with a little issue I am working on. I am trying to write a utility that will analyse a makefile, and create a target 'tree' from it. In preparation for this, I thought I would write out the Backus-Nour Fom of the various elements of a makefile, so that I coul

Re: make compilation, libit's gettext

2000-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul D. Smith writes: > Bruno, do you have any thoughts on how we could _safely_ auto-detect a > "good" gettext implementation? I think it would be satisfactory to > detect a version of GNU gettext, and brand all other versions "bad", That's good enough, yes. You can detect GNU gettext by check