Re: make dumps core on empty filename

2004-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi Paul This bug has been fixed in the source for GNU make. The fix will be available in the next release. I wonder when the final testing phase before release of the next release will be? If this testing phase or final release candidate is announced I would be interested in giving it a try. I t

Re: Garbage characters in the output of make -np in the Linux source tree

2004-02-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
I believe this bug is the result of a known, rare, and already-fixed problem with the parser that occurs if a line is exactly the right length. I could not reproduce this with the current development version of make. --

Re: Bug#176639: make: documentation of VPATH does not match behavior

2004-02-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms>The value of the `make' variable `VPATH' specifies a list of ms> directories that `make' should search. Most often, the directories are ms> expected to contain prerequisite files that are not in the current ms> directory; however, `VP

Re: make dumps core on empty filename

2004-02-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> zircon$ make -f '' ms> make: file.c:57: lookup_file: Assertion *name != '\0'' failed. ms> Aborted (core dumped) ms> Clearly passing in an empty string as the filename is an error, but ms> I think it should be reported to the user in a

the problem with make file

2004-02-22 Thread Yulia Rashti
Hello,   I have a list of *WLE.cnt files and I have a rule for all WLE.cnt files. I would like to write the another rule that will be different for 2 *WLE.cnt files and for all the other it will be the same   I write the following in the make file, but it doesn't perform that.     WLE_FILES