Re: conflict between RCS and VPATH

2000-03-17 Thread Albert L. Ting
John Gerard Malecki writes: > From: John Gerard Malecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Albert L. Ting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: Lyndon Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "Scott L. Bordelon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: conflict between RCS and VPATH > Date: Fri,

Re: conflict between RCS and VPATH

2000-03-17 Thread John Gerard Malecki
wow. if this is the support that you get from free software imagine the quality of support that we must get from cadence or synopsys or avanti! that must be fantastic! Paul D. Smith writes: > %% "Albert L. Ting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> RCS > >> Any file `N' is extracted if n

Re: conflict between RCS and VPATH

2000-03-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Albert L. Ting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> RCS >> Any file `N' is extracted if necessary from an RCS file named >> either `N,v' or `RCS/N,v'. `N' will not be extracted from RCS if it >> already exists, even if the RCS file is newer. alt> The above rule, where the RCS file is

conflict between RCS and VPATH

2000-03-17 Thread Albert L. Ting
> RCS > Any file `N' is extracted if necessary from an RCS file named > either `N,v' or `RCS/N,v'. `N' will not be extracted from RCS if it > already exists, even if the RCS file is newer. The above rule, where the RCS file is newer, does not seem to work if the loc

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread John Alvord
Can @file have multiple lines? I suspect it doesn't have to be a single line with multiple filenames... that is the way most response files are set up. If so... dummyfile : *.java sh echo $? | xargs -n 10 echo >> file javac @file touch dummyfile with some preliminary rule that rm'

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
Hi John: I saw the xargs solution in the cygwin news group. but does it work from within the make utility? e.g. for the following rule dummyfile : *.java echo $? > file javac @file touch dummyfile When make launches a shell to execute the echo command. the $? expands to a very la

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
Actually I started off with cygnus's make, but it didn't work (make itself crashed with access violation). Then I downloaded gnu's 3.77.1 make which was unable to compare timestamps and same with 3.78.1. But interestingly both of them didn't complain about "command line too long". Its just that, t

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread John Alvord
I have solved similar problems using xargs to break up the long list of names into manageable chunks. This is on a NT system. john On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mohan Krishnan wrote: > Hi Paul: > I am faced with another problem regarding the command line length. I > have a large dependency list which

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
No idea. This seems more like a shell issue, and anyway I know next to nothing about Windows environments (and I'd like to keep it that way :). I'd ask the Cygnus folks. By the way, I know that Cygwin comes with its own port of GNU make, they don't use the code distributed in the GNU make tarfi

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
Hi Paul: I am faced with another problem regarding the command line length. I have a large dependency list which I am echoing to a file using echo $? > some_file And on NT sh.exe (from cygnus) keeps crashing saying either command like too long or STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. Is there a cure for