Re: Excessive $(strip)

2014-04-03 Thread J.T. Conklin
wlines are considered to be whitespace, othertimes not. For example, as you reported, gmake's $(strip ...) function treats newlines as whitespace. But the "word" family of functions do not. define x foo bar endef all: echo $(words $(x))

Unexpected interaction between command line variables and override

2011-10-09 Thread J.T. Conklin
explicitly say that the variables specified on the command line will not be exported to the environment if used with the over- ride directive. --jtc -- J.T. Conklin ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: patch to support output synchronization under -j

2011-04-14 Thread J.T. Conklin
ose a lot of context. FWIW, A commercial distributed make system I use at work has a "--x-mergestreams" command line option to control whether stdout & stderr are merged or not. By default, the streams are merged. I tend to agree that this is the more useful behavior.

add support for nanosecond timestamps on *BSD systems.

2000-10-10 Thread J.T. Conklin
The enclosed patch adds support for nanosecond timestamps on *BSD systems. Since *BSD uses st_mtimespec and Solaris uses st_mtim, this required AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC to pass the toplevel field name instead of just tv_nsec (or equiv). --jtc 2000-10-10 J.T. Conklin <[EM