This has been reported as an enhancement and the change was made
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well as every bit of correspondence you have had with that company, to
the email address on the page.
If it wouldn't be too much trouble please CC me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on that
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econd, there is nowhere in GNU make that the text "macro substitution"
(in any case) exists, much less is printed.
Finally, there is no "?:" macro operator in GNU make, so I don't know
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e a syntax error, when that's not a syntax error?
sn> Do you have any shorter alternative in GNU make other than
sn> "ifdef".
Since you didn't specify exactly what behavior "?:" provides I can't say
for sure, but look up the ?= assignment operator i
n't have one, but it won't help if
you're trying to define a variable to a value if some other variable
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You're correct about the missing reference to hash.obj. This has been
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Bug-make mai
on
Savannah I would hope that something official would be out in the next
4-6 weeks or so.
But, nothing is certain...
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on would be if the kernel builds could be changed to be a
little more robust, say by quoting "=" signs with "\".
Other than that, or allowing you to disable the feature altogether
(which might break something else, I don't know), I don't see any good
alternative
version of GNU make
from CVS your example gives:
$ ./make
hello a a+b c
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Or, you can use the make you currently have on your system to build GNU
make, rather than using build.sh.
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s /bin/sh.
Try this, as an experiment and send me the output:
$ cd make-3.80/po
$ /bin/sh -x ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share
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on't have to "cd ..", because that happens
automatically when the process ends.
I don't know if whatever shell you're using with your port supports
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doesn't (I have filed those as bugs in Savannah) and yes, we will do our
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I would think you could use something like the subst function to do
this, pretty easily.
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andard for make.
The move to C90 function definitions is already complete in CVS, if
that's what you mean. However, the system uses the ansi2knr toolkit so
it hopefully will still build with at least some pre-ISO compilers.
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considered the same prerequisite.
You can get your makefile to work like this:
hello : | foo/.
hello :
@echo hello
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"Please remain calm..
know how to build ..."
for one or more of them).
bk> For example, $(dir) does not strip the trailing slash. Oh, but $(@D)
bk> does...
These are user functions. I'm talking about make's internal
representation of the target name, that it uses to walk the DAG.
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gnu.org site though, if
that's what you mean. Perhaps someone else rebuilt the docs with a
newer version of texinfo or something. Can you give me links to the
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use
any other special character that would cause make to kick the command to
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and is "test", whether "test" exists on the PATH, or
whether it's a shell script, or anything like that.
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results of the build are
installed.
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_
g generated by some command that make is running
(some command in your makefile).
So, I'd look through your makefile for "expr" and find one that's used
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h other projects, I can recover via doing a subsequent
esp> make. In this case, it seems to screw up both the current *and*
esp> the subsequent makes.
Since you didn't say what version of GNU make you're using it's hard to
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ensure that, for example, adding in "r" to MAKEFLAGS takes effect
properly. Also it's probably good to have MAKEFLAGS parsed every
time it's changed so that the changes take effect immediately.
Probably some others...
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ld
just use that to build GNU make instead of the build.sh script.
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er supposed to exist then you should use the .PHONY
pseudo target to tell make that:
.PHONY: speak
Then, make will behave as you expect both with -n and without it.
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#ifdef __STDC__ && __STDC__
to this:
#if __STDC__ && HAVE_STDVARARGS
and see if that helps. If not, be sure to include all the information
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o install foo.1
ms> echo install foo.2
ms> echo install done
Most likely pmake behaves differently; it may always run all
double-colon scripts, even if there's a satisfied prerequisite
relationship.
Try the above makefile with the touch lines in it: does it run all three
rules even tho
cript doesn't
update "junk" itself, make doesn't consider the two .tex files out of
date (they are still newer than their prerequisite, "junk") so it
doesn't rebuild modules.tex.
If you change your rule so that it updates "junk", all will work as you
ex
e fix will be
available in the next release.
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more clear. This change will be
available in the next release of GNU make. Thanks for your report!
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Bug-m
e files would constantly
being committed with changes that moved them back and forth in all kinds
of silly ways. We stopped doing that and life has been much happier
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'm not sure how snapshots like
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script for some reason
jg> unknown to me. Perhaps the "purify" code in the report is
jg> removing make.exe ?
Why is the Purify code being invoked? It shouldn't be, unless you asked
for it--which you shouldn't do if you don't have Purify.
jg>
reason for this is because the test script has decided that
your system is running VMS.
If you solve that problem I'm sure things will start working _MUCH_
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sing the sleep time will help?
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chapter "How to Run 'make'".
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"Please remain calm..
ough of a reason to make this sort of backward-incompatible
change to its behavior.
Especially since you can do what you want to do with the $(eval ...)
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$ touch parser.c
$ make
parser.o
Just as expected.
Does my example show the same error as yours, on your system?
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a/*.java lisp/*.lisp)
synctool java lisp syncdir
@touch $@
Now whenever any file is newer than the sentinel file make will see that
something has changed, and the synctool will be run, then the sentinel
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= nlines;
nlines = readline (ebuf);
+ ebuf->floc.lineno += nlines;
/* If there is nothing left to eval, we're done. */
if (nlines < 0)
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This bug has been fixed in the source. You can find a patch attached to
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ust use an implicit rule
here in the first place. If you don't use implicit rules you'll have to
be careful to use a dummy target if you want to have a single command
line generate all those files: explicit (and static pattern) rules don't
work like that.
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backslash/newline resolution at some point during the parsing or
expansion of variables? Exactly when? How will this impact backward
compatibility? Or are some functions going to do it and others not?
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use the above behavior is defined by
POSIX and required of every program that calls itself "make".
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look in read.c line 537. The dumping code simply does not
bk> distinguish between normal and order-only prerequisites.
ITYM rule.c.
I have a fix for this already but maybe I haven't checked it in yet.
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expected" in every case.
I'm assuming all the regression tests still pass with your patch
applied? I can't remember whether I added a test for this situation or
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>> %% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> If you expect it to print
>>
bk> %r: | baz
>>
bk> then look in read.c line 537. The dumping code simply does not
bk&
define:
define subst
echo $> | sed 's/#foo#/$(FOO)/' > $@
endef
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env:
@echo Target: environment
touch env
include dep
Note this will run "env" only once, not twice.
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d shows that it does work as documented:
.PHONY: all showfoo
all: showfoo
$(MAKE) showfoo MAKEFLAGS='FOO=1'
showfoo: ; @echo 'FOO=$(FOO)'
$ make
FOO=
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/psmith'
FOO=1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/psmith'
(or four) things I know about, so ... eh?"
dk> I'd just like to point out that it isn't only $shell that is
dk> affected: $error and $warning are also affected. I also notice
dk> that it works fine if you escape the semicolon:
Right. This is a parser bug, pure and
l see if I can think of a way to do it.
Alternatively you could move away from include and just start using
eval... then you don't have to worry about re-exec at all.
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makefile:1: Reading makefile
SECOND
FIRST
MAIN
temp$ make
makefile:1: Reading makefile
SECOND
FIRST
MAIN
I still think you may find using $(eval ...) to be overall simpler.
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%% Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> Yes it is, if you write it correctly.
j> (sorry, this is such an attacking statement...)
Sorry; I didn't mean it like that. I just meant you have to write it in
a very specific way ("correctly"
27; junk.test is touched.
This is a bug in make 3.80; it's been fixed already.
You should try the 3.81beta1 release; it works there.
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suspect it would be
a _LOT_ of work, and would need to use a lot of special features of
whatever LR tool you chose. Something like PCCTS might be better suited :).
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jp> % echo Please wait ... >CON
jp> % echo >CON
jp> %endif
I don't know where you got this, but it's not a GNU make file.
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This is a long-standing deficiency in the parsing of MAKEFLAGS. It's
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l
Yes, I agree; I didn't realize it but you're right this ends up working
the same way as giving -r on the command line (I guess they only way to
tell the difference would be to add back some suffixes).
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gt; $(out_root)/configuration:
bk> configure $@
bk> include $(out_root)/configuration
bk> comments?
Mm. I don't know about this. It seems like it's the wrong way
around... if what you want to have is the default target, why have
people declare everything that _cannot_ be
dj> $P; which faubackup
???
You can set PATH to a value that includes itself in the exact same way
you can set any other variable to a value that includes itself: you use
simply-expanded variables:
PATH := /usr/sbin:$(PATH)
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imes in a makefile, and add
prerequisites to it as often as you like. But, every singe target can
have one and only one set of commands to be run.
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resolved external Symbol _hash_init
This bug has been fixed and will be available in the next release.
You can find more info here:
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ch> the ./configure script, I assume my system satisfies all requirements,
ch> right?
Yes.
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ould get
back to it and implement it correctly.
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"Please remain calm.
This is a bug in GNU make 3.79.1. It's been fixed in newer versions.
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Your problem is almost certainly an instance of an eval bug in 3.80.
See this report (and the included patch):
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=1517
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s just a general
rule; for example since $(ALL_BASE) is a constant you don't have to
escape that, if you don't want to, etc.)
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t you do get the KEEP.
jvh> 1:no 2:yes
This is correct. See the GNU make manual definition of what ifdef does.
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etc.
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_SOURCE=500 -Wall -Werror -g
sn> all: $(PROJ)
sn> $(PROJ): $(OBJS)
sn> $(OBJS): $(SOURCE)
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ied it and it doesn't, or just that
you've looked at the code and it doesn't look different?
If the latter, please give it a try. If the former, please provide a
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in fact a bug, or if the first
km> case is merely an unsupported feature, in which case I'd like to
km> request such a feature. On the other hand, perhaps there is a
km> better way to do what I need to do.
Make sure you have GNU make 3.80 or better, and look up the $(eval ...)
f
$(myvar)
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%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> %% Will Partain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
wp> Hi; I don't know if the little Makefile below *ought* to
wp> work or not; i
%% "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pds> I don't see any reason technically that it couldn't be done. The
pds> parser would need to be massaged somewhat. I can't remember
pds> whether the function that parses define/endef also creates
%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I don't see any reason technically that it couldn't be done.
bk> That's what I thought too. Also it would be nice to extend the concept
bk> of target/
anual.
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d to be fixed.
Please don't give up suggesting ways to clean up the code... it's not
that I'm not interested, but I do have other priorities as well.
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this id-utils library
installed even if it did exist (in fact probably nothing but Linux
would), so in order to depend on it we'd need to include it in the
source code distribution... as we're doing.
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