Re: [rfc] Colorized output for GNU make?

2012-04-06 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/28/2012 08:12 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> Without looking any closer than your email I may prefer to handle this >> through the maintainer build step, rather than committing gnulib files >> directly to the make source control. But I'll have to investigate. > > I'm aware this can be done

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > I had a little look at libtdl.   To be brutal I thought that using > dlopen/LoadLibrary directly was *much* easier. There isn't really > anything madly complicated about what's being done. To clarify: when I originally spoke about APR, I was not

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Tim Murphy
On 6 April 2012 21:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Paul Smith >> CC: David Boyce , bug-make@gnu.org >> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:13:47 -0400 >> >> Maybe this is just irrational prejudice but I've never had a good >> experience using libtool and I'm SO uninterested in fighting with it in >> GNU m

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > CC: David Boyce , bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:13:47 -0400 > > Maybe this is just irrational prejudice but I've never had a good > experience using libtool and I'm SO uninterested in fighting with it in > GNU make. > > I will admit that my distaste is so extre

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 22:35 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:30:31 -0400 > > From: David Boyce > > Cc: tnmur...@gmail.com, bug-make@gnu.org > > > > Sorry, I've never used libltdl. Maybe it would have been better just > > to say "libraries exist to paper over the difference

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:30:31 -0400 > From: David Boyce > Cc: tnmur...@gmail.com, bug-make@gnu.org > > Sorry, I've never used libltdl. Maybe it would have been better just > to say "libraries exist to paper over the differences between various > platforms dynamic linking APIs; consider not rei

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Herring
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, David Boyce wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: I was thinking of marking this feature as "experimental" in the first release (in the documentation), just to be more clear on expectations. Very very much so - there are many platforms to support anyhow

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:08:33 -0400 >> From: David Boyce >> Cc: "bug-make@gnu.org" >> >> Apropos of this, the Apache Portable Runtime has a nice abstraction >> over dlopen and LoadLibrary. > > Is it significantly better than what libltdl

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:08:33 -0400 > From: David Boyce > Cc: "bug-make@gnu.org" > > Apropos of this, the Apache Portable Runtime has a nice abstraction > over dlopen and LoadLibrary. Is it significantly better than what libltdl provides? The advantage of the latter is that it's readily ava

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-04-06 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: >> I was thinking of marking this feature as "experimental" in the first >> release (in the documentation), just to be more clear on expectations. > > Very very much so - there are many platforms to support anyhow and > when someone eventually trie