[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Update of bug #16389 (project make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #16389 (project make): Icarus: I'm sorry you feel frustrated about the situation. However, I'm not going to discuss it in bug report comments: that's not appropriate. If you want to talk about it you can use one of the public mailing lists, or email me and/or Boris and

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #16389 (project make): Perhaps it is time to consider forking GNU make? The current maintainer seems too busy to give it the attention it deserves, but appears unwilling to allow others to help. If we look at CVS, we see a burst of activity on March 19th, with a small f

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #16389 (project make): > why not just add the rules into your makefile if you need them? Not easy to do if you're talking about a large number of projects. > I do realize this means that any makefile that uses objective-C > needs to be changed, but the same is true f

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #16389 (project make): Paul, You repeated what I said already -- because we'd need to add obj-c rules to *every* affected project. Apple already depends on GNU make to this degree. So far every such project "assumes" the buildbots will be using Apple make -- let's no

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16389 (project make): I agree with Paul pretty much, however, this patch has been waiting here for quite a while with no real reason, IMO, for not adding it. Being a GNU make only feature is not really an issue, I don't think, there are a whole bunch of GNU make only fe

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #16389 (project make): I don't really understand the urgency around this: why not just add the rules into your makefile if you need them? The built-in rules are just that: built-in; they can be added to or removed in makefiles. I do realize this means that any makefile

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #16389 (project make): Hi, I wish I had seen this report last year. Just about every project around the world that needs to compile .m objects is needing this patch. * The XFree86 project's darwin support can't be built with make-3.81[.90cvs]. This patch is require

[bug #16389] Defaults for Objective-C

URL: Summary: Defaults for Objective-C Project: make Submitted by: None Submitted on: Thursday 04/20/06 at 03:56 UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item Gr