RE: Gmake Enhancement

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Belton
Paul: I've never used VPATH before. Let me go understand it and look at the code that implements it. I will also see if I can figure out why the test harness is borked under FreeBSD for me. Could be our port of ActivePerl. Have a great weekend! Jim. > -Original Message- > From: Paul S

RE: Gmake Enhancement

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:53 -0700, Jim Belton wrote: > > > I've been considering making an enhancement to gmake to support > > > bmake's '.include "file"' semantics. In bmake, when you > > > include a .mk file, its included files are searched for in its > > > own directory as well as in the pat

RE: Gmake Enhancement

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Belton
Hi all: I wrote: > > I've been considering making an enhancement to gmake to support > > bmake's '.include "file"' semantics. In bmake, when you > > include a .mk file, its included files are searched for in its > > own directory as well as in the path. This allows us to get > > around havin