Regarding https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13107
(from December 2012, sorry) ...
[From Mikulas]
> > config.h.in : am__configure_deps
> > echo build config.h.in
> > rm -f stamp-h1
> > touch config.h.in
[...]
> Hmm, adding a "sleep 1"
Hi Paul -
With the two line Makefile,
x:
-false
running make 4.1 results in
Makefile:2: recipe for target 'x' failed
make: [x] Error 1 (ignored)
When an error is ignored, I think showing the "recipe failed" message is
wrong -- it didn't fail. At least, I certainly don't want to see
Is it "Software development" or "Software Development"?
Lowercase d.
The Directory is inconsistent in capitalization of section titles, so I
arbitrarily decided to use "First word only" style in the Info
categories. I hope someday to be able to get the Directory cleaned up
in the same way, b
Hi Paul,
In make.texi, could you please change
@dircategory GNU Packages
to
@dircategory Software development
?
(The goal is to make Info dir categories be the same as the Free
Software Directory categories, where possible.)
Thanks,
Karl
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I suggest the following minor changes to make.texi (relative to 3.80) to
change the category in the Texinfo dir file -- I've been trying to
rationalize these categories per rms's suggestions.
Also, the frontmatter should be changed to use @copying, the GNU free
documentation license, @ifnottex ins
Tom Tromey mentioned a paper to me titled "recursive make considered harmful".
It is by Peter Miller, circa 1997.
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
It describes a method of constructing project Makefiles (using includes)
so there is only one top-level Makefile, and the numerous benefits on
