make 3.81 test failure

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Jarc
I got this test failure when building make-3.81 on i686-pc-linux-gnu: variables/INCLUDE_DIRS .. FAILED (1/2 passed) $ cat make-3.81/tests/work/variables/INCLUDE_DIRS.diff *** work/variables/INCLUDE_DIRS.baseSun Apr 2 18:09:46 2006 --- work/variables/INCLUDE_DI

Re: $(wildcard) not expanding generated files

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Jarc
"Johan Bezem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DervishD wrote: >> Will this undesired >> behaviour (undesired by me, at least) be solved if I replace >> $(wildcard pattern) with $(shell echo pattern)? > > No, you'd probably need 'ls', 'echo' just echoes the given characters, and > uses no wildcard expa

Re: Make 3.79.1 on OpenVMS

2002-09-27 Thread Paul Jarc
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm. However, I can't think of any way to write a configure test on > whether or not time_t is signed or unsigned. if ((time_t)-1<(time_t)0) signed(); else unsigned(); paul ___ Bug-make mailing list [EMAI

Re: mysterious "" target

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Jarc
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look at your debugging output: > > Reading makefile `makefile'... > Oops, thanks. I think I'm on the trail now. paul ___ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.

Re: mysterious "" target

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Jarc
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the -p output I can see where this is used: > > sv.o: /package/host/localhost/gcc/lib/gcc-lib ... >EXTERN.h av.h c ... > > etc. I don't know where these are coming from, but they're not coming > from any kind of GNU make builtin inform

Re: mysterious "" target

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Jarc
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using the -p option. That will print make's entire internal > database and you should be able to find it there. Ok, it appears just before in several dependency lists, and also: # Not a target: : # Implicit rule search has been done. # File doe

Re: mysterious "" target

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Jarc
I wrote: > I'm building perl 5.6.1 on a rather unusually configured system, and I > got this from "make all test install": > make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop. Sorry, this is make 3.79.1. paul ___ Bug-make mailing

mysterious "" target

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Jarc
I'm building perl 5.6.1 on a rather unusually configured system, and I got this from "make all test install": make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop. The Makefile does not contain the string "", and "make -d all test install" didn't give my any clue where it came f