Re: Documentation Typo

2023-01-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 18:39 -0800, Vafilor wrote: > so just changing the second `of` to be `if`.  I made this fix, thanks for reporting!

Re: Documentation - reference not defined query

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 16:32 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > ...$ make Makefile I also wanted to say, this is wrong as written here... you don't want to give Makefile as a target to be built. You should just run "make" with no arguments. Make will read a file named "Makefile" by default. Only if yo

Re: Documentation - reference not defined query

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
Please always CC the mailing list instead of email me directly (or just reply only to the list). That way others can help even if I'm unavailable. On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 14:44 -0500, Pete Edwards wrote: > Dear paul, Thank you > You are right, I tried to print the IDF_PATH variable contents using

Re: RCS / SCCS (was: Re: Documentation - reference not defined query)

2020-01-20 Thread Pete Edwards
Thank you Paul...makes sense now you point it out. Thank you Pete E On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:44 PM Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 13:09 -0500, Pete Edwards wrote: > > The reference to RCS and SCCS file types on page > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-

Re: Documentation - reference not defined query

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 13:58 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > Makefile:8: /home/pete/esp/esp-idf:/home/esp/esp-idf/make/project.mk: > > No such file or directory > > This means make is trying to include the file named, literally, > /make/project.mk and that file (not surprisingly) cannot be found. S

Re: Documentation - reference not defined query

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
In general it's helpful if you use plain text emails, and/or format your email carefully especially with makefiles as things like indentation are crucial to see correctly. Also it's important to ask clear questions, one at a time, and give a very clear description of your environment etc. As a no

RCS / SCCS (was: Re: Documentation - reference not defined query)

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 13:09 -0500, Pete Edwards wrote: > The reference to RCS and SCCS file types on page > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-Makefiles.html#Remaking-Makefiles > > What is an RCS File type? Google references 3D scene data type...I don't > think that's wh

Re: Documentation issue

2019-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 16:49 -0400, Peter Marshall wrote: > 5.3 Recipe Execution > > foo : bar/lose > cd $(@D) && gobble $(@F) > ../$@ Indeed this is incorrect. I've updated the manual. Thanks for mentioning this! ___ Bug-make mailing list Bu

RE: Documentation bug: mistaken transitive verb

2018-03-27 Thread Martin Dorey
> mistaken transitive verb I think we can take your testimony as a demonstration that it's an infelicitous phrasing, which is the kind of useful insight that wouldn't occur to at least this native English (and fluent make) speaker, but, for what it's worth, I don't think it's a grammatical erro

Re: Documentation for eval() has a bug

2015-11-28 Thread David Hart
Ah, nevermind, I just saw this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13260396/gnu-make-3-81-eval-function-not-working -- David. David Hart Limnu --- https://limnu.com On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:21 PM, David Hart wrote: > > Hi, I've run into this problem twice (because I forgot the first time) a

Re: Documentation Bug

2015-07-08 Thread Pankaj Kaushik
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Reinier Post wrote: > > > Please correct it. > > It would be better to write 'followed by' instead of '/' > to avoid this misunderstanding. > > Yes this would be better in order to avoid end user misunderstanding. Thanks, Pankaj > -- > Reinier Post >

Re: Documentation Bug

2015-07-08 Thread Reinier Post
On Wed Jul 8 11:02:55 2015, engg.kaus...@gmail.com (Pankaj Kaushik) wrote: > Hi Team, > > There is documentation bug in make file pdf(see attachement) on Page no 2 > under section 2.2 at below line. > > >>We split each long line into two lines using backslash/ > > Bug :- You mentioned forward s

Re: Documentation for the eval function

2013-05-23 Thread Sascha Ziemann
> > If your version is 3.80 or newer, please cut/paste (exactly) your > makefile so we can see it. > I took the example from the documentation: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Eval-Function.html#Eval-Function $ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foun

Re: Documentation for the eval function

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 20:13 +0200, Sascha Ziemann wrote: > Hi, > > I think the example in the documentation for the eval function is > broken. I copied the example to a file and tried it with "make clean". > The action for the clean target is "rm -f $(ALL_OBJS) $(PROGRAMS)". > The PROGRAMS variabl

Re: Documentation error

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:01 +0100, mohamed hassanine aissa wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > I think i've found a little error in the documentation of GNU make: > section : 9.5 Overriding Variables > > citation "An argument that contains `=' specifies the value of a > variable: `v=x' sets the value

Re: $@ documentation

2002-10-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks Henning. hm> If your $(BINFILES) live in different directories, I dont think hm> there's any way to get around writing separate rules for each hm> directory (save for some kind of clever abuse of the new $(eval hm> ...) function in 3.

Re: $@ documentation

2002-10-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adc> It seems make doesn't set $@ where I want it set. adc> That wasn't real obvious. I still don't see it in adc> the documentation. I could have sworn there was something there but I looked and also didn't see it. I'll add a note in the

Re: $@ documentation

2002-10-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > this didn't work > $(BINFILES) : $(notdir $@) > $(install) --mode a=rx --strip $(notdir $@) $@ > - > It seems make doesn't set $@ where I want it set. No. That's one of the things you ju

Re: Documentation and other things

2001-02-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Magnus Fromreide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mf> In the info maual section Phony Target it is recommended that mf> submakes are started using a pattern where each subdir is used as mf> a target in order to make paralelization easier but this makes it mf> very hard to communicate to the