Re: [patch] parallel make bug with failing commands

2005-08-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Michael Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> Ah, right, good idea. Btw. funnily I can't reproduce the effect mm> of the deferred output on one of the machines even with your mm> makefile. The child is left running, but the echo "ok done" is mm> missing, probably because the parent mak

Re: [bug #13976] Regression in :: deps handling between V3.76 and V3.80

2005-08-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bk> Yes it does. It's not clear to me whether it's good or bad, though. bk> I don't see how "result depends on how we got here" type of logic bk> is of any usefulness especially in the context of make (read "build bk> reproducibility"). bk>

Re: gnu make manual tweak/fix to example used in 8.8 The eval Function

2005-08-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% James Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jc> Two lines had problems: (see original Makefile and modified one (as in jc> tgz) below) jc>$(1): $$($(1)_OBJ) $$($(1)_LIBS:%=-l%) jc> and jc> $(LINK.o) $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $@ jc> The first makes e.g. -lpriv and -lprotocol depend

gnu make manual tweak/fix to example used in 8.8 The eval Function

2005-08-10 Thread James Coleman
Hello, 8.8 The eval Function has an example of using eval, foreach, ... and I am planning on using something a bit like that myself. The example provided has a two problems and I have a fixed version (tested on GNU Make 3.80 on solaris). You might like to incorporate this fixed version in the m

Re: [bug #13976] Regression in :: deps handling between V3.76 and V3.80

2005-08-10 Thread Boris Kolpackov
Paul, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I disagree, actually. It's a settled feature of make that the DAG is > not a simple tree: that there can be more than one pathway to a given > target in the DAG. > > The placement of the .WAIT prerequisite implies a relationship between > two pre