Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
> so it's not just parentheses. > I wonder if it has to do with archive support. Ah, interesting. > This should be reported on Savannah. Perhaps the OP would like the honor? >> bla bla bla > This is perfectly legitimate (Indeed. I only mentioned it to demonstrate that open parenthesis didn

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:30 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > -rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket() > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket()'.t > make: *** No rule to make target `bracket().t'. Stop. That seems to be a bug. I can reproduce it. On the other han

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
> You didn't specify what errors you got when you had the parens in there Here you go: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ ls -l bracket* -rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket( -rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket() [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/make-2006-11

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:52 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the white > space with underscores. Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad. > Weird. Close-parenthesis is also bad with Debian sarge's make-3.80. I suspect that has to d

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
> I'd be interested to see the same test with "odd characters" but not > whitespace. Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the white space with underscores. Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad. Weird. Close-parenthesis is also bad with Debian sarge's make-3.80.

Re: [bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Chu
Martin Dorey wrote: However, your point about programs invoked by make inheriting the setrlimit() is definitely something that seems problematic. Perhaps GNU make could change the stack limit back to what it was after it forks but before it execs its child. I wonder what hap

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +, Jon Grant wrote: > Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: > > Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) > > Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. I might need to reopen that bug; there definitely was a change in behavior WRT

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: > Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. Jon ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mak

RE: [bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
> However, your point about programs invoked by make inheriting the > setrlimit() is definitely something that seems problematic. Perhaps GNU > make could change the stack limit back to what it was after it forks but > before it execs its child. I wonder what happens if you change a limit to

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul D. Smith Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 14:09 To: Paul D. Smith; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bug-make@gnu.org Subject: [bug #18369] pattern rules don't work with spaces in filenames U

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Hi Dan Jacobson elucidated on 30/11/06 17:14: > $ cat Makefile > .PRECIOUS:.%.time > %.t:.%.time; > .%.time:% > bla bla bla > $ ls -1 > Makefile > 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University) > > Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to > $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學)

can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ cat Makefile .PRECIOUS:.%.time %.t:.%.time; .%.time:% bla bla bla $ ls -1 Makefile 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University) Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University)'.t make: *** N

[bug #12209] PATH vs Path

2006-11-30 Thread Juha Laukala
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #12209 (project make): -- code snippet from function.c:1475++ /* make sure that CreateProcess() has Path it needs */ sync_Path_environment(); if (!process_begin(hProcess, command_argv, envp, command_argv[0], NULL)) { /* register process for wait */ The syn