Re: GNU make man page typo

On 2 Sep 2021, at 06:40, Zach Petch wrote: The second paragraph under DESCRIPTION reads, > To prepare to use make, you must write a file called the makefile that > describes the relationships among files in your program, and the states the > commands for updating each file. The same text was pr

[bug #55863] '-load' directive adds its object to the target list if unsuccessful

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55863 (project make): I think it means given the following makefile: -load nonexistent.so all: @echo loaded: $(.LOADED) The hyphen has avoided Make saying "image not found // failed to load. Stop" but even with -load it still stops with "No rule to make tar

Re: GNU make 4.2.93 release candidate available

I am the OP whose seemingly innocuous bug report (40657) has led to this mess. Unfortunately I don't recall what I was doing back in 2013, but I suspect I had naively written a suffix rule with a prerequisite that didn't work as expected, noted that the documentation said something else again, f

Documentation buglet: $(wildcard PATTERN...)

In node Wildcard Function ("The Function `wildcard'"), wildcard can take multiple patterns: If you want to do wildcard expansion in such places, you need to use the `wildcard' function, like this: $(wildcard PATTERN...) However in node File Name Functions ("Functions for F

Re: [patch] Fix make.texi typo

Reposting as it would be nice to have this trivial documentation fix in the upcoming release. Cheers, John On 21 Oct 2015, at 17:55, John Marshall wrote: > A tiny patch for the documentation, adding a missing comma. diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi index bcfe6a3..afce1c5 100

[patch] Fix make.texi typo

A tiny patch for the documentation, adding a missing comma. Cheers, John diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi index 86a1aeb..f506102 100644 --- a/doc/make.texi +++ b/doc/make.texi @@ -5616,7 +5616,7 @@ Several variables have constant initial values. @cindex != To set a variable fro

[bug #40657] Suffix rules and prerequisites

URL: Summary: Suffix rules and prerequisites Project: make Submitted by: jmarshall Submitted on: Thu 21 Nov 2013 14:08:34 GMT Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Documentati