Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)

2019-06-13 Thread Tim Murphy
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 03:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:58 AM David A. Wheeler > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:18:15 +0100, Tim Murphy > wrote: > > > builtin functions can check their arguments to some extent. > Interesting to > > > wonder if user defined ones c

Re: Idea: MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS variable silences make warnings

2019-06-13 Thread Tim Murphy
Wouldn't it be safer to disable specific warnings for specific target(s), or specific sections of a makefile? On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 19:42, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 14:37 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote: > > Create a new make special variable "MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS". > > I have to

Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)

2019-06-13 Thread Masahiro Yamada
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:58 AM David A. Wheeler wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:18:15 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote: > > builtin functions can check their arguments to some extent. Interesting to > > wonder if user defined ones can. > > we don't even have $(equals) or a way to know the number of arg

Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)

2019-06-13 Thread Masahiro Yamada
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:16 AM Tim Murphy wrote: > > builtin functions can check their arguments to some extent. Interesting to > wonder if user defined ones can. > we don't even have $(equals) or a way to know the number of arguments that > were supplied or any mathematical operations with whi

Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)

2019-06-13 Thread Tim Murphy
builtin functions can check their arguments to some extent. Interesting to wonder if user defined ones can. we don't even have $(equals) or a way to know the number of arguments that were supplied or any mathematical operations with which to compare. So when something is called wongly it charges on

Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)

2019-06-13 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:18:15 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote: > builtin functions can check their arguments to some extent. Interesting to > wonder if user defined ones can. > we don't even have $(equals) or a way to know the number of arguments that > were supplied or any mathematical operations with whi