Re: [bug #17880] Manual needs example for order-only prerequisites

On 9/28/06, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Last time this was requested there was noone that could cook up a sensible example for this strange feature. So unless you come up with a good proposal it may not happen. Finding a sensible example is easy: use it to require that generated

Re: [bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

David Fang wrote: Maybe it's time we "use the source" and submit a patch? :) I remember taking a look at the source where children jobs are dispatched, but don't recall deciding where/how to hack in random ordering. When I wrote the original jobserver code, that was something interesting t

Re: [bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

> > In my experience, I frequently build pdf and ps documents from the same > > latex sources, via latex and pdflatex. Unfortunately, the intermediate > > auxiliary files they produce are not compatible with each other (latex vs. > > pdflatex), thus, I use .NOTPARALLEL: foo.pdf foo.dvi, and use a l

[bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #17873 (project make): Similar to bug #5108 ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu

Re: [bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

David Fang wrote: Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17873 (project make): Haven't been paying a lot of attention, but when is such a lame thing nas .NOTPARALLEL needed? Why aren't people just writing proper dependencies so that parallel/serial is irrelevant? Example: In my experience, I frequen

Re: [bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17873 (project make): > > Haven't been paying a lot of attention, but when is such a lame thing nas > .NOTPARALLEL needed? Why aren't people just writing proper dependencies so > that parallel/serial is irrelevant? Example: In my experience, I frequently build pdf and

Re: [bug #17880] Manual needs example for order-only prerequisites

> Details: > > This section needs an example and/or more clarification. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-order_002donly-prerequisites-155 > Last time this was requested there was noone that could cook up a sensible example for this strange feature. So unless you come u

[bug #17881] Better documentation of make rules

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #17881 (project make): It might be worthwhile to add some kind of makefile validation flag, which processes all prerequisites in random or right-to-left order, specifically to expose occurrences of incorrect prerequisites. ___

Re: [bug #17881] Better documentation of make rules

Bah. Pretty sure I selected "Documentation" for this submission, not "Enhancement". Howard Chu wrote: URL: Summary: Better documentation of make rules Project: make Submitted by: hyc Submitted on:

[bug #17881] Better documentation of make rules

URL: Summary: Better documentation of make rules Project: make Submitted by: hyc Submitted on: Thursday 09/28/2006 at 20:26 Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Enhancement

[bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17873 (project make): Haven't been paying a lot of attention, but when is such a lame thing nas .NOTPARALLEL needed? Why aren't people just writing proper dependencies so that parallel/serial is irrelevant? ___ R

[bug #17880] Manual needs example for order-only prerequisites

URL: Summary: Manual needs example for order-only prerequisites Project: make Submitted by: yost Submitted on: Thursday 09/28/2006 at 13:05 Severity: 3 - Normal Item Gro

[bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #17873 (project make): Clarification: If .NOTPARALLEL is mentioned as a prerequisite .. built serially in the order given, even if ... ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #17873 (project make): This proposal allows us to use make -j not only without worry but also with as much concurrency as possible, on any of a set of makefiles that have been appropriately annotated. BTW, the doc section is: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/mak

Re: here docs in makefile

On 9/28/06, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Also mention how one can do shell HERE docs please! I don't think it's possible to embed a here-doc directly in a Makefile. In the line passed to the shell, all the newlines except the very last will be preceded by a backslash, but the he

here docs in makefile

In 5.1.1 Splitting Command Lines, at Sometimes you want to split a long line inside of single quotes, but you don't want the backslash-newline to appear in the quoted content. This is often the case when passing scripts to languages such as Perl, where extraneous backslashes in