Paul Smith wrote:
It needs to be considered carefully.
How about having GNU 'make' do what GNU 'cp -u' does?
The idea is to infer filesystem timestamp resolution by looking at every
file timestamp that crosses your desk. When you see a file timestamp
whose tv_nsec is nonzero modulo 100
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> I pretty much agree with everything Paul says in this thread.
And I tend to agree with David right down the line :-) But I guess two
Pauls beat a David.
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On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 13:57 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> David Boyce wrote:
> > The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the
> > presence of the ".POSIX:" special target.
>
> We should limit ".POSIX" to what POSIX requires. Even if the ruling
> stands POSIX won't require the
On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 16:25 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> It seems a design flaw that I must
>
> make -sj clean && make -sj all && make -sj check && make -sj install
Well, that's because you're only considering this use-case, where we
know the context and it's clear that building them in par
Hi,
I find it odd that -j breaks the idiomatic `make clean all check
install'. Consider
$ cat makefile
#! /usr/bin/make -f
SHELL = /bin/bash
all:
sleep 0.$$((RANDOM % 10)) && echo all
clean::
sleep 0.$$((RANDOM % 10)) && echo clean
check::
