Re: [bug #60736] Introduce "Circular <- dependency dropped." for .EXTRA_PREREQS deps.

2024-05-20 Thread JZB
On 5/19/24 18:25, Paul D. Smith wrote: Follow-up Comment #6, bug #60736 (group make): I think that using a warn option is better than forcing this to always warn. But I still think that the warning makes global usage useless, and since there's no way to control warnings on a per-target basis (to

Re: Treat "Circular dependency...dropped" as a hard error instead?

2024-05-13 Thread JZB
On 5/13/24 21:05, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 2:04 PM JZB wrote: I have a GNU make-based build system wherein I would like for any/all GNU make-detected circular dependencies to be treated as a hard error, i.e., fail [immediately], rather than a "dropped and we

Re: Treat "Circular dependency...dropped" as a hard error instead?

2024-05-12 Thread JZB
On 5/11/24 06:11, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 2:04 PM JZB wrote: ... perhaps a command line option or a ".CIRCULARERROR:" rule or some way to allow this to be turned on by those who need it? There is currently no mechanism (option or otherwise) to fail on

Treat "Circular dependency...dropped" as a hard error instead?

2024-05-08 Thread JZB
pendency is a coding error in the Makefile's by the build-engineer, and I don't want it to slide by... Thanks, jzb

Re: [bug #56732] VPATH doesn't work with pattern rules

2019-08-10 Thread JZB
On 8/10/19 8:16 AM, anonymous wrote: > Follow-up Comment #3, bug #56732 (project make): > > OK, this is a special case I didn't remembered. The wording in the manual > doesn't touch implicit rules, so one can assume it should work for them too. > > I don't know how much application of rules diffe