Re: Generating Prerequisites Automatically

2003-01-23 Thread Peter A . Kerzum
Hi, Ted Sorry, I sent this message directly to you, not to the list. Yes, your are partialy right, my way has several problems, I've encountered in a short time after submitting it to the list. All inluded makefiles share .DEFAULT rule with each other and the master makefile, so multiple 'redefin

Re: Generating Prerequisites Automatically

2003-01-23 Thread Johan Bezem
"Peter A.Kerzum" wrote: >... > > Instead, I use a trick Paul Smith describes elsewhere, which is to create > > the dependency files concurrently with compilation. That way, if the > > Please, point me to that trick. Am I reinventing the wheel ? =) > And my purpose is to generate dependency file

Use of $* in computed dependencies

2003-01-23 Thread Herb W. Swan
This is not a bug, but a neat feature that would open the door to improved functionality, as far as I can see. The following makefile doesn't do what I had hoped it would: all:b.logvsh b_depend := a.raw.mod %.logvsh: $($*_depend) %.mod @echo make $@ %.raw.mod: @ech

RE: Use of $* in computed dependencies

2003-01-23 Thread Herb W. Swan
Sorry, I made a slight misstatement in my earlier post, corrected below. Thank you for reading this post. - This is not a bug, but a neat feature that would open the door to improved functionality, as far as I can see. The foll

Re: Use of $* in computed dependencies

2003-01-23 Thread Ted Stern
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Herb W. Swan wrote: > > Sorry, I made a slight misstatement in my earlier post, corrected > below. Thank you for reading this post. > - > > This is not a bug, but a neat feature that would open the door > to

Re: EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2003-01-23 Thread Tom Rodriguez
Hello. I've finally gotten a chance to look at this more closely and the problem is that GNU make assume that SA_RESTART restarts all system calls which isn't true for solaris and I suspect isn't true for any System V based Unix. From looking at the linux sources it appears to restart everything

Re: EINTR causing useless recompilation?

2003-01-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Tom Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tr> Hello. I've finally gotten a chance to look at this more closely tr> and the problem is that GNU make assume that SA_RESTART restarts tr> all system calls which isn't true for solaris and I suspect isn't tr> true for any System V based Unix