Re: Feature request, with implementation, test and rationale.

2012-11-07 Thread Fredrik Öhrström
Den onsdagen den 7:e november 2012 skrev Paul Smith: > > There is already a new $(file ...) function in the current CVS version > of GNU make, which writes to a file. > That is the best response any feature request can get! Its already implemented. :-) Thanks! //Fredrik __

Re: Feature request, with implementation, test and rationale.

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 14:39 +0100, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > To get around this particular problem I implemented a workaround > marcro called ListPathsSafely that writes the contents of a variable > to disk. There is already a new $(file ...) function in the current CVS version of GNU make, which

Feature request, with implementation, test and rationale.

2012-11-07 Thread Fredrik Öhrström
When I designed the new makefiles for the OpenJDK project (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html) The first and foremost problem was, how to efficiently compile Java software from makefiles. That included: 1 not wanting to spawn a jvm, to check if any java sources had changed.