Re: automatic linking links too many files

2009-05-22 Thread James Coleman
Hello, The intent of the default rule is to make it easy to handle object files or libs I think. So it makes sense that for you the file is assumed to be an object file and is passed to the link line. For anything other than very simple cases you will make your own rules. 1. Do you actually

[bug #23273] Please include xkcd easteregg

2008-07-10 Thread James Coleman
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #23273 (project make): patch attached Posted this already on make mailing list, sorry for duplicate info, was not sure about adding patch here. As simple as possible I think. Don't call to fatal so that easter egg error text is clear of adornment. Exits using die(2) as

Re: [bug #23273] Please include xkcd easteregg

2008-07-09 Thread James Coleman
Sorry I'm not sure about where to submit a patch. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/ ? I keep on thinking about this since I saw your request Joachim! Now maybe I can lay it to rest whether this is used or not. As simple as possible I think. Don't call to fatal so that easter egg error tex

Re: Bug: make igores options, switches and targets

2007-01-19 Thread James Coleman
Georg-Johann Lay wrote: > make clean echo clean clean That proves that your make does accept the command-line target. So it must be the shell or ?? something. Not a problem with make I think. your Makefile and sh -c 'make clean' call works okay within cygwin for me: $ sh -c 'make clean' ec

Re: EAGAIN in "read jobs pipe"

2007-01-10 Thread james coleman
Oh dear. Sorry people. I was of course being a bit silly when talking about make -j 16385! Howard Chu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps... On the other hand, if you're using -j 65K, why not just -j? Does you build even have 65K jobs? of course I do not use -j65k ! :-O :-) Very good

Re: EAGAIN in "read jobs pipe"

2007-01-09 Thread James Coleman
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:32 +, James Coleman wrote: Ken Takusagawa wrote: For reasons I haven't completely triaged yet, I've been having my parallel makes die with "read jobs pipe: Resource temporarily unavailable. Stop." All memory on machine mi

Re: EAGAIN in "read jobs pipe"

2007-01-09 Thread James Coleman
Ken Takusagawa wrote: For reasons I haven't completely triaged yet, I've been having my parallel makes die with "read jobs pipe: Resource temporarily unavailable. Stop." All memory on machine might be used up (real memory + all swap). e.g. we get this: virtual memory exhausted: Resource temp

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

2006-02-21 Thread James Coleman
libumem on solaris is quite good, you can run it no problem without dbx or the other sun tools. Not quite as good as valgrind I believe though I don't have experience with valgrind. Here's another url with good examples of use of libumem: http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/libumem.html Very ea

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

2006-02-21 Thread James Coleman
I definately agree it is a bug fix. (that changes behaviour :) ) Thanks Paul, James. Paul D. Smith wrote: I'll add a note about this as it's a behavior change, even though I consider it a bug fix. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org htt

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

2006-02-20 Thread James Coleman
Hi Paul, Build & install on solaris 2.9 (sparc) using gcc (3.4.5) looks fine. make check all good. Parallel builds for making make as well as building our stuff. I see one thing that might be an issue. Not critical I think. But it's a change in behaviour anyway and I'd like to run it by you

gnu make manual tweak/fix to example used in 8.8 The eval Function

2005-08-10 Thread James Coleman
Hello, 8.8 The eval Function has an example of using eval, foreach, ... and I am planning on using something a bit like that myself. The example provided has a two problems and I have a fixed version (tested on GNU Make 3.80 on solaris). You might like to incorporate this fixed version in the m