Re: Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Murphy
Why didn't you do this 4 years ago darnit? ;-) Cheers, Tim On 7 September 2010 17:40, Kamil Mierzejewski wrote: > Hi, > > Tim, your explanation of the problem is exactly what I want to deal with, > and... > >> Does this change sort that out so that: >> 1) all the little sub-makefiles can have p

Re: Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation

2010-09-07 Thread Kamil Mierzejewski
Hi, Tim, your explanation of the problem is exactly what I want to deal with, and... Does this change sort that out so that: 1) all the little sub-makefiles can have paths and references that are relative to their location in the filesystem but: Yes, the "solution" makes it possible. The whol

Re: Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation

2010-09-07 Thread Edward Welbourne
> One wants to have a big build to make the most use of the parallelism > that's available but also to deal with dependencies that span > components or directories.  A hierarchy of makefiles that run each > other recursively can't represent these dependencies properly and also > are not terribly go

Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Murphy
Sorry - messed up the reply-to-all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Murphy Date: 7 September 2010 15:12 Subject: Re: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation To: psm...@gnu.org Hi, I think I can guess and if I'm wrong then please ignore this. One wants to have a

[bug #111] '@' hides useful info sometimes, needs --print_all_cmds

2010-09-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #111 (project make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:

Re: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:45 +0200, Kamil Mierzejewski wrote: > I came up with a solution to this long-lasting, largely-talked problem > of recursive make invocation. Can you please clearly describe the problems you want to solve, then describe the solutions you came up with? The above problem def

Re: BUG in BEAMnrc

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 12:30 +0530, arun dawn wrote: > I am facing a BUG when running my LINAC model. This mailing list is for bugs in the GNU make program. We can't help you with BEAMnrc. -- --- Paul D. Smith

Re: There is a bug in the make manual!!

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 11:01 +0430, ali hagigat wrote: > I copied some lines of the 2010 make manual, page 19. It says > prerequisite list will be: > /tmp/var/bar/foo.c > Where is 'var'? You're right; that should not contain a "var". I've fixed that in the source. --