Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > I think if you really wanted to pursue this, it might be worthwhile > creating a little script that updated the timestamps on all files to > still have their relative timestamp relationship, but just newer. For > example you could sort all th

Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 09:13 -0800, David Boyce wrote: > It looks like the touching not only destroys incremental build > capability (expected and not an issue) but toggles the makefile into > "developer mode". > > I'm not looking for any changes here, just wondering whether anyone > knows which fi

[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #52912 (project make): Yes, I understand you weren't suggesting the fake "bash" be on PATH. But I still think it's an unfortunate hack. I've been using the build of make itself as a test/demo for a related build tool I'm working on. I'm under no illusion that the rest of

question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
This isn't a bug in GNU make at all, just a question about how it interacts with its own use of automake which is something I have little experience of. First, a little background. I'm working in a corporate Linux environment in which there are a few tasks that don't work well in NFS so I've moved

[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

2018-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #52912 (project make): Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: I'm saying that if you

[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #52912 (project make): Hmm. When you say "I think that your use-case is going to cause lots of other problems", I'm not sure whether you're referring to the make build model per se or the greater universe of makefiles. I'm aware that .ONESHELL has certain pitfalls in the

[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

2018-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #52912 (project make): Unfortunately, Makefile.in is generated by automake and that rule is part of automake's autogenerated content, it's not part of GNU make, so there's not much we can do about it (at least, not easily). I think that your use-case is going to cause lo

[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
URL: Summary: minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL Project: make Submitted by: boyski Submitted on: Tue 16 Jan 2018 02:12:06 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal I