Re: Erroneously not updating intermediate/secondary dependency

2019-02-22 Thread Luke Shumaker
s newer than > that target or there is some other reason to update that target. In this example b='a.out'. Thus with reading the quoted text, if Make had decided to not "bother updating b [a.out]", then that would be one thing. The problem i

Erroneously not updating intermediate/secondary dependency

2019-02-22 Thread Luke Shumaker
rc" passed $ make kindaclean rm -f -- *.out $ # wait a momenent, so the timestamps are visibly different $ make { echo 'build'; date; ls -l a.src; } > a.out { echo 'build'; date; ls -l a-derived.src a.out; } > a-derived.out

Re: suggestion: new make function

2011-09-25 Thread Luke Shumaker
r suggestions more elagant than the original, they seem more general purpose, and less "let's introduce this feature to get around a specific problem". Of your two suggestions, I'd favor the "withfile" option, it would be both more power

Fwd: Re: suggestion: new make function

2011-09-25 Thread Luke Shumaker
... acting as a redirector for stdout to the file and allowing one to perform quite complicated actions such as writing and reading from sockets although it is perhaps not all that "functional." Regards, Tim On 25 September 2011 18:41, Luke Shumaker wrote: > At Tue, 20 Sep 201

Re: suggestion: new make function

2011-09-25 Thread Luke Shumaker
bst %.java,%.class,$(java_source_files)) compile_all: $(java_class_files) %.class: %.java $(JAVAC) $< I'm sure someone can find an example of when the command length is an actuall problem, but generally, it means that you're doing

Re: [PATCH] Options: `--dry-run' should prevent `--touch' from touching

2011-03-24 Thread Luke Shumaker
I agree with you, though I didn't initially. I've noticed that this list doesn't always have timely replies. -- ~ LukeShu http://lukeshu.ath.cx On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 03:52 -0500, Michael Witten wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:12, Michael Witten wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 16:11, Phil

Re: Suggestion/Offer: new rinclude directive

2011-02-13 Thread Luke Shumaker
That would be great, thank you! If I do use your code, and I do submit a patch for inclusion, have you/do you mind filling out the FSF copyright assignment papers? -- ~ LukeShu http://lukeshu.ath.cx ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http:

Suggestion/Offer: new rinclude directive

2011-02-10 Thread Luke Shumaker
I had an idea for a feature that I believe will allow more elegant multi-directory Makefiles to be written. An alternate include directive, rinclude' (for relative include) that treats all targets described in the included makefile as relative to the included path. [ Note: in this email, code sam