Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 02:25 +, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Both of you have confirmed the bug - because the correct behaviour has > no error messages, and you both got messages. Neither of you was able > to reproduce getting a text-dependent number of messages, but both of > you see buggy behaviour

Static multiple target rules

2010-03-01 Thread tom honermann
I've been struggling for some time now with how to write rules for commands that generate multiple targets and I have so far been unable to find an elegant solution that works reliably. I know pattern rules have support for specifying multiple targets, but they don't seem to be appropriate for

RE: Make manual update

2010-03-01 Thread Martin Dorey
> What's the most recent edition; @set EDITION 0.70 @set RCSID $Id: make.texi,v 1.64 2009/11/12 16:42:36 bosk Exp $ > where can I find an authoritative copy ? http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/make/doc/make.texi?revision=HEAD&root=make&view=markup Instructions for setting up a Cvs work area ar

RE: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-03-01 Thread Martin Dorey
> completely reproducible without using $(eval)! "How", I wondered to myself, "is Philip defining multiple rules in one line without using $(eval)?". Eventually, I realized that the essence of one of the OP's allegations - the one we can reproduce - is that this, much simpler test case, demons

[bug #29025] problem with odd directory names with spaces and/or parentheses

2010-03-01 Thread Ozkan Sezer
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #29025 (project make): FWIW, I am attaching the original SubDirSpaces directory from the cmake test failure report at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/forums/forum/723798/topic/3551522 The original error message, as reported to me is the following: "gmake[2]: E