ought to exist: by which rules?

2007-03-09 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
Versions: 3.79.1, 3.81. The definition of (file that is) <(make) Implicit Rule Search> is ambiguous. does not state, whether this means the prerequisite in rule in question or in any other rule in makefiles. This manifests with makefile like this. (I know, libtool does things like these much

does not rebuild Makefile.in

2008-08-19 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
Version: 3.81 Occurs in any `Makefile' obtained from Makefile.in generated by automake 1.10.1 from Makefile.am. so reproducing should be easy. `automake' args was: --gnu All `Makefile' modification was removing `Makefile' target. The reason was obvious: otherwise `make' would fail due to `M

not a bug [does not rebuild Makefile.in]

2008-08-20 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
Considering what desribed in posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:55:34 +0400 to (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) to be bug of `make' input, more precisely, that of automake (generating said input). The issue for `make' considering thus closed, not a bug, invalid. My apologies. Described the automake bug in po

reporting requirements [Re: does not rebuild Makefile.in]

2008-08-21 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
As for the original (not of make) issue, confirming my [not a bug] posted on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:49:44 +0400 (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). As for attitude expressed in your reply of Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:57:21 +0400 (MSD) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), it is pretty widespread in many free sofware mailing lists, fo

Re: reporting requirements

2008-08-22 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
> No one is getting paid, Unfortunately, the attitude, once established here, nearly inevitably spreads to other situations, even exactly those of paid "support". It would be nice to be able to nuke it in all assigned to paid support, to automatically force everybody manifesting it to go back to

Re: reporting requirements

2008-08-28 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
> If you're going to > insist Insisting on nothing. Just have no way to do so. > that people make assumption about your setup because you aren't > interested in describing it, then expect misleading answers. Certainly there will always be such a risk. The matter is how much. Certainly operatin