No output from $(shell foo) on Tru64

2004-07-12 Thread Matthew Sanderson
Hi, I'm running GNU Make 3.80 on Tru64 4.0F on an Alpha. I'm intermittently getting empty values as the result of a $(shell foo) function call. One 'make' run, the variable gets the value I expect, which is the output of the command; the next run, the variable gets an empty value. Example makefil

Re: goto and macro usage

2004-07-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Noel Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As for the hash stuff, those files (hash.c and hash.h) are taken >> basically verbatim from the id-utils GNU package, as a fast, >> portable hashing library. I suspect they are implemented as they >> are for speed, and although I'm not sure I wou

Re: goto and macro usage

2004-07-12 Thread Noel Yap
Paul D. Smith wrote: Personally, I don't agree with the attitude that gotos are always evil and should never be used (certainly in C). I find that, used in specific ways, they make code much clearer by avoiding the useless noise of deeply nested conditionals. I completely agree with this sentiment