Re: Extension proposal

2000-11-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
In brief, what I'm doing is modifying GNU make so that variables that are expanded immediately (see the section ``How `make' Reads a Makefile'' in the GNU make manual) can expand to contain newlines, and make will parse them as if they were individual make lines. This supercedes the functionality

Re: Extension proposal

2000-11-11 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Hi, "Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > Hi Eray; > > Thanks for the patch. > > However, you should be aware that the major new feature for the next > release of GNU make, which will be 3.80, is a superset of the change you > are proposing. The read.c file is being (indeed, has already been) > fairly e

Re: Extension proposal

2000-11-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Hi Eray; Thanks for the patch. However, you should be aware that the major new feature for the next release of GNU make, which will be 3.80, is a superset of the change you are proposing. The read.c file is being (indeed, has already been) fairly extensively reworked. Also, you make use of ver

Extension proposal

2000-11-09 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Hi! In the course of developing a skeletal build system using GNU make, I was looking how I could incorporate automake-like features into make. I've been using a hand-crafted makefile over the last few years, so I just took it, refactored it into a few files and extended it so that it had an auto