Re: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-21 Thread Steve James
On Monday 20 February 2006 04:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all; > > Please find the first release candidate for GNU make 3.81, 3.81rc1, > available now for download from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make: > > c907a044ebe7dff19f56f8dbb829cd3f > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81rc1.tar.bz2 >

Re: backslash-newline change: my world has become black

2005-12-21 Thread Steve James
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:39, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dj> You guys have a new backslash-newline deal that is breaking 1000 > dj> of my scripts. > > dj> make > dj> perl -pwle '\ > dj> BEGIN{print "#jidanni ~root/config auto

Re: Change of behavior: 3.80 vs 3.81beta3 WRT line continuation

2005-08-22 Thread Steve James
1? Perhaps I'd get more mileage with double-quotes? Or perhaps I should use 'define'? Cheers, Steve. On Sunday 21 August 2005 23:28, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Steve James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sj> AFAICT the behavior of line continuation escapes has cha

Re: Make segfaults with attached sources

2005-08-19 Thread Steve James
Hello John, I concur: that Makefile segfaults with make 3.80. However, you may like to know that it doesn't upset 3.81beta3 (linux and MinGW builds). I expected this might be the case because I've been through the same experience: one day, I added another innocuous line to my make script, and i

Change of behavior: 3.80 vs 3.81beta3 WRT line continuation

2005-08-15 Thread Steve James
AFAICT the behavior of line continuation escapes has changed within single-quoted strings. What's really confusing me is that this seems to be deliberate. Here's the simple example make script all: @echo 'line1\ line2' Version 3.80 prints this (as I would expect): line1line2 But Vers

RE: Make 3.79.1 On Windows 2000

2001-03-07 Thread Steve James
> The second problem happens on all Windows 2000 systems, regardless of > As you can see, I'm running with the MKS toolkit (v 6.2a) installed, We had this problem too but it went away when we upgraded to 7.0. I believe you don't want to run MKS on Win2k at less than 7.0. Steve