Re: make: # in quotes is still treated as comment character

2002-04-14 Thread John Alvord
I've used a simple circumvention for years. _POUND = \# and then use $(_POUND) in the command rules. which are interpreted by shells after substitution. Of course not using # in filenames helps!! john alvord On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:46:22 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Feature Request: ignore @'s in rules

2001-05-31 Thread John Alvord
On Thu, 31 May 2001 16:19:44 -0400, Mark Frazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ignoring the @ (command echo suppressor) during make debugging would >be very handy. > >I can't find a documented option to do so. I code all my command suppressor like this _ECHO=@ # near begining $(_ECHO)cmd

Re: problem found

2001-04-29 Thread John Alvord
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:00:51 +0200, Neta Bar Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi there! >when i use GNU make with the -j flag, all the output of the process >(compiling in parallel) is mixed together, >what can I do in order to avoid this situation (maybe I should flush the >buffers in each child

How-to

2001-04-05 Thread John Alvord
I've been working to rework some makefiles to they work correctly under parallel execution conditions. all: a b c a: b: c: Lets say "a" is a rule which creates some directories which are used by "b" and "c". How can I make sure that "b" and "

Re: Unterminated string error

2001-04-04 Thread John Alvord
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 00:08:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Alvord) wrote: >This is a gnu make 3.79.1, freshly gotten from the archives - date was >June 2000 if I remember. I am work on upgrading from 3.75 to 3.79.1. >There were a few small repairs needed, but it mostly looks OK. >Thi

Re: Unterminated string error

2001-04-02 Thread John Alvord
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:29:20 -0400, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Alvord) writes: > > ja> This is a gnu make 3.79.1, freshly gotten from the archives - date was > ja> June 2000 if I remember. I am work on upgrading from

Unterminated string error

2001-04-02 Thread John Alvord
served on 3.75. I tried using bugs.gnu.org but couldn't get it to return anything from the queries. Has anyone else seen this? john alvord ___ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: Better Debugging

2001-01-18 Thread John Alvord
s during that instance. A second debug technique is the equivalent of a printf() in C. To each rule in a makefile add a $(ECHO)echo makefile_name rule_name $(var) etc >> trace.lst Then run the makefile(s) and you can see a dynamic execution "trace". This is brute force but very

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread John Alvord
even if I have xargs in there, the $? is still > gonna expand and cause make or sh to crash. > is there a specific way that i can use a combination of $? and xargs ? > > Thanks, > Mohan > > > - Original Message - > From: "John Alvord" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread John Alvord
I have solved similar problems using xargs to break up the long list of names into manageable chunks. This is on a NT system. john On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mohan Krishnan wrote: > Hi Paul: > I am faced with another problem regarding the command line length. I > have a large dependency list which