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

2004-02-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> I have always thought that a normal (non-pattern) rule with ms> multiple targets gets run multiple times, once per each target ms> that is out of date. That's correct. ms> MODULES := Blah Bleh ms> SOURCES := $(addsuffix .sml,$(MODULES

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

2004-02-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> In some cases, GNU make ignores some double-colon rules when dry-run. ms> Assumed this Makefile is given ms> install.man:: foo.1 ms>@echo install foo.1 ms> install.man:: foo.2 ms>@echo install foo.2 ms> install.man::

Re: Errors compiling make.c

2004-02-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Jonathan Willcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jw> I'm getting errors compiling misc.c. jw> Functions message (222), error (258) and fatal (291) all generate jw> conflict errors with the prototype make.h (396, 398 and 400). jw> I'm using gnucc 3.3.2. When reporting problems _PLEASE_

Re: suspected bug in flag -n, in make-3.80

2004-02-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Matteo Ciucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mc> I found that something strange happened to the -n flag from mc> version 3.80: it doesn't show what really make does. When you run with -n, make can't know what your rules will _REALLY_ do when you run them. Instead, it simply assumes that your