Re: Thoughts on limiting the parallel build load, suggestion for a new "-j auto" option

2012-03-14 Thread Eldar Abusalimov
Hi, I would suggest to mention the current behavior in the manual, instead of making $(value ...) to emit a warning. The main motivation is backward compatibility. In our project we widely use $(value N) to get arguments of 'call' that are assumed to be optional without raising a warning (I've ju

WG: Thoughts on limiting the parallel build load, suggestion for a new "-j auto" option

2012-03-14 Thread R. Diez
Hi all: Writing makefiles is hard enough, so I always enable option --warn-undefined-variables whenever I can. I have recently realised that in GNU Make 3.81 the $(value ...) function does not warn as expected. That is, if I run this example makefile: VAR_NAME := UNDEFINED_VARIABLE all: