Re: empty $? (bug 8154?)

2005-12-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Jan Beulich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jb> In a makefile like presented in the first response to this issue, jb> it is claimed that it is appropriate for $? to be empty. However, jb> I would assume that if $? is empty and if the target exists, then jb> there is no need to remake the

Re: make and backslash-newline's

2005-12-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ams> Please revert the POSIX_ME_HARDER change of backslash-newline ams> sequences are handled. There is absolutley no reason to break ams> this. Lots of old Makefile use it, and so do many new ones. If ams> one wishes to follow POSIX, o

Re: backslash-newline change: my world has become black

2005-12-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Wait, I find I need to do bla: perl -wlne 'if(/^Get:/)[EMAIL PROTECTED];splice(@e,0,3);'"\ "'$$_=join(q{ },@e)}print' zzz to make it work with both old and new make. Assuming I don't want to look into the contents, and instead just modify the front and back of each line. _