%% Johnny Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jw> What about a 'make No_I_Really_Really_Really_Mean_It-install'
jw> option, or something along those lines that prints a warning, asks
jw> 'Are you sure you wish to do this here zany thing?' then installs
jw> to the -proper- (indicated by whic
What about a 'make No_I_Really_Really_Really_Mean_It-install' option, or
something along those lines that prints a warning, asks 'Are you sure you
wish to do this here zany thing?' then installs to the -proper- (indicated
by which) location? That'd be good. Reason being: I'm a programmer, so I
can
%% Johnny Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jw> Well, looks like the 3.79 install didn't quite work.
Yes, it did.
jw> I did a configure,
jw> make, make install, and everything went off without a hitch. Ah! I've just
jw> found the bug. Here's my uname -a:
jw> Linux vegas 2.2.13 #1 Tue
%% peter miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pm> In case you haven't run into it, a make file like so:
pm> x\ y: z
pm> causes make 3.78.1 to fail with
pm> make: read.c:892: read_makefile: Assertion '*p2 != '\0'' failed.
pm> (and core dump.)
This has been fixed in the latest version
%% "Andy Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ab> I am trying to get GNU make 3.77 to run the attached makefile. It
ab> gives me the following error: ', needed by `all'. Stop.target
ab> `Server.idl. GNU make 3.75 has no problem running this makefile.
ab> Am I missing something or is this
%% "Randall J . Million" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rjm> I have been unable to assertain why GNU make cannot handle the
rjm> following file, while the AIX default make handles it just
rjm> fine.
rjm> y.tab.o lex.yy.o: $(@:.o=.c)
This syntax isn't supported by GNU make (actually, this s
hi there seems to be a problem with make.exe (version 3.79). I am
relatively new to this utility but the problem seems to not be concerned
with my ignorance ;)
this is my makefile:
test.exe : test.obj
tlink /3 /t test.obj
test.obj : test.asm
tasm /z te
"Jörg Reuter" wrote:
> APP = `echo "myapp"`
>
> file.$(APP):
> touch file.$(APP)
>
> Repeated calls to make will touch "file.myapp" again and again.
file.$(APP) is expended to file.`echo "myapp"` and this file does not
exist.
Try this definition:
APP := $(shell echo "myapp")
then APP
Dear developers,
I'm not quite sure whether the problem I have encountered is a bug,
so maybe it's just a suggestion on how to extend the functionality of
"make".
Let's take the following makefile:
--
APP = myapp
file.$(AP
