Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey typed: Lars Eighner wrote: I have some sources which may or may not exist. My target should be rebuilt if a source exists that is younger than the target. But sources that do not exist should be ignored and make should not be

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:18:10 Grünewald Michaël wrote: Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s)

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Correct. I do the same here. I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ make is universal too, as many other unix tools. for example i use make and cpp (C preprocessor) for making HTML pages :)

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Don Read
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar said: Correct. I do the same here. I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ make is universal too, as many other unix tools. for

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C rules, while -- it seems to me -- make

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make

General and specific make questions

2009-06-07 Thread Lars Eighner
What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C rules, while -- it seems to me -- make could be much more useful for