Re: strangeness about variable inside the shell

2003-06-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Huiseok Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hk> p {margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;} it looks strange that the variable in the shell doesn't work with builtin function. following is one of the situation: Please don't post HTML. hk> list = foo/bar google deep/deeper/deepest hk> test:

Re: Is .INTERMEDIATE badly broken if used with -j2?

2003-06-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
I believe that you are correct, if the behavior is as you describe that this is a bug. But, I have not had any time to look at it yet. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http:

Re: make problems

2003-06-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Edwards, Rudolph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: er> While trying to compile the RHL 7.2 kernel, issuing the 'make er> menuconfig' or any other 'make options' the response is as follows: er> Make: "No rules to make target 'option" . Stop er> Option can be anything such as "config, menuc

Is .INTERMEDIATE badly broken if used with -j2?

2003-06-04 Thread savannah
The purpose of 'make' is to build the minimum amount needed after a change (otherwise one could just type 'gcc *.c'). The purpose of '.INTERMEDIATE' is to say that a file does not need to exist, which is often used to save disk space. The missing file will have an effective timestamp of its latest

strangeness about variable inside the shell

2003-06-04 Thread Huiseok Kim
it looks strange that the variable in the shell doesn't work with builtin function. following is one of the situation:   list = foo/bar google deep/deeper/deepest test:     for item in $(list); do \     echo $(notdir $$item); \     done result ?   foo/bar google deep/deeper/dee

make problems

2003-06-04 Thread Edwards, Rudolph
Hello, While trying to compile the RHL 7.2 kernel, issuing the 'make menuconfig' or any other 'make options' the response is as follows: Make: "No rules to make target 'option" . Stop Option can be anything such as "config, menuconfig, clean, mrptoper, etc..."   Do you have any suggest

Canned command sequences

2003-06-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
I have a few reports that when building the Linux 2.5.70 kernel the build system is more noisy than supposed to be. The problem is tracked down to usage of canned command sequences. The following is from the makefiles: #General definition (scripts/Makefile.lib) if_changed_rule = $(if $(strip $? \