two bugs in construct_command_argv_internal() (job.c, latest CVS)

2003-09-11 Thread Toomas Rosin
Hello, I had two problems with job.c, and consider them bugs, at least the second one. (I admit I don't quite understand what was going on in the first case.) The problems were with construct_command_argv_internal() when supplied a large LINE argument consisting of many lines. My system: [2

Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-24 Thread Toomas Rosin
You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: your post contains some incorrect statements about how and why the problem occurs, and also incorrect implications for the fix. Well, make's code is not easy to debug (deep recursion), and I have not done this before. I certainly do not see all the issues eve

Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-24 Thread Toomas Rosin
You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your fix is not correct; note that the documentation for $(eval ...) says: The result of the `eval' function is always the empty string; thus, it can be placed virtually anywhere in a makefile without causing syntax errors. Thus, there is no

make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-24 Thread Toomas Rosin
Hello! Given this input: f0 = $(foreach s,foobar,$(firstword $s:)) e0 = $(foreach s,foobar,$(eval $s:)) f1 = $(foreach s,foobar, $(firstword $s:)) e1 = $(foreach s,foobar, $(eval $s:)) f2 = $(foreach s,foobar, $(firstword $s:)) e2 = $(foreach s,foobar, $(eval $s:)) all:

more about wildcard function

2001-05-07 Thread Toomas Rosin
Paul Smith wrote in this list (April 30, 2001): GNU Make uses a directory cache in order to speed up processing. Because of this cache, once the directory is read it will only be seen (from within make) to contain changes that make knows about I think this should be mentioned in the

make $$$ fast

2001-05-06 Thread Toomas Rosin
[03:48:40] toomas@ns:~ $ make $$$ fast make: *** No rule to make target `31061$'. Stop. [03:48:43] toomas@ns:~ $ ___ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make