RE: Lucent nmake feature support

2003-11-11 Thread Andy Voelkel
> av> The main thing I noticed is the built-in dependency scanner for > av> source code. That would be a welcome addition to GNU make. OPUS > av> had it, and it will be missed. > >You can get automated dependency scanning with GNU make, it just doesn't >come built-in. But it's not hard to achi

Re: Bug#218367: make: strange behavior with multi-target rules

2003-11-11 Thread Ted Stern
On 10 Nov 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Surprise #3: refactor like this > > $(TEX) : junk > > junk: $(SOURCES) > ./bin/plit -n $(SOURCES) > > touch Blah.sml. Now make modules.tex runs the last rule (once), but > not the first rule (for modules.tex itself), even though it clearly is > out

Re: Bug#218367: make: strange behavior with multi-target rules

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [Please retain the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Debian Bug Tracking system can record your input] This has been reported by a debian user. Package: make Version: 3.80-4 I have always thought that a normal (non-pattern) rule with multiple targets gets run mul

Re: Bug#214592: dry-run of double-colon rules?

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [Please retain the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Debian Bug Tracking system can record your input] This has been reported by a debian user. In some cases, GNU make ignores some double-colon rules when dry-run. Assumed this Makefile is given all: foo.1 foo.2