Re: Buglet in gmake 3.79 html documentation (and possibly others)

2000-11-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
This must be an error in the info2html stuff in texinfo; I'll take a look (I didn't actually convert this version of the manual for the web pages, as I didn't have access back then... but I do now). It looks like info2html is assuming text inside of will be handled verbatim, which isn't so (at l

Re: GNU make -- loader error

2000-11-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
> ld: fatal: file values-Xa.o: cannot open file: No such file or directory > ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to install/watchdog > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [watchdog] Error 1 This doesn't have anything to do with GNU make. Make just invokes whatever co

Re: GNU make -- loader error

2000-11-13 Thread
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Buglet in gmake 3.79 html documentation (and possibly others)

2000-11-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
[Please note this refers to a problem in the HTML online documentation of gmake 3.79 on www.gnu.org, not to gmake itself] Problem: Multiple occurrences of tokens which have '<' in them are not HTML encoded as they should be. This may be a bug in info2html or whatever tool was used to automatica

Target specific variable problems

2000-11-13 Thread Scott Murray
Consider the following Makefile: # start .PHONY: a b c d all BLAH := foo COMMAND = echo $(BLAH) all: a b c a b c: @$(COMMAND) b: BLAH := bar c: BLAH := bar c: COMMAND += snafu $(BLAH) d: c d: BLAH := baz # end With make-3.79.1, running 'make' yields: foo bar foo snafu bar This se