Re: [rfc] Colorized output for GNU make?

2012-02-27 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/13/2012 05:41 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Pulling in an implementation from gnulib, just in case, might be the way > to go. If been playing with gnulib integration by now: gnulib comes with a tool "gnulib-tool" to manage bundling for you. After a call # [..]/gnulib-tool --conditional-depende

[bug #35485] New $(.MFDIR) built-in variable

2012-02-27 Thread David Boyce
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #35485 (project make): I'm not sure how much more specific I can be than saying that "it's just shorthand for $(abspath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST" but let me try to elaborate. First, the variability of .MFDIR would be precisely the same as that of MAKEFILE_LIS

Re: [bug #35485] New $(.MFDIR) built-in variable

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 21:58 -0800, Howard Chu wrote: > You've just described an O(n^2) behavior. This is definitely a drag; > but it really depends on how heavily you make use of macros. Well, in this case it depends on how heavily you make use of APPEND operations on macros. Is it worth adding a