[bug #106] make reports misleading line number in error message

2006-02-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #106 (project make): Don't worry about it. I think I have a handle on it. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=106 ___

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #15, bug #15757 (project make): Good stuff. Having both of those lists eventually point to global_setlist is, I'm pretty sure, quite correct... all local setlists should eventually point to the global list (this allows global variables to be accessed after all!) I'll have to

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15757 (project make): Severity: 3 - Normal = 5 - Blocker Assigned to:None = psmith ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #17, bug #15757 (project make): Oh yeah... using the info you gave and just walking through the logic of merge_variable_set_lists(), you can easily see where the problem happens: global_setlist-next pointer is getting set to point into the to setlist. Ouch. The logic in this

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #18, bug #15757 (project make): Hi. I can now reproduce this problem, even on Linux, using the following setup: mkdir t1 t2 touch t1/rules.mk cd t2 cat Makefile EOF VPATH = ../t1 include rules.mk .PHONY: all all: foo.x foo.x : rules.mk ; @echo cp $ $@ rules.mk : MYVAR = foo

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #19, bug #15757 (project make): OK. Please try replacing version.c:merge_variable_set_lists() with the one I've attached to this bug report. See if that solves your problem. It fixes my test case but the regression tests all still pass.

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Additional Item Attachment, bug #15757 (project make): File name: mvnew.cSize:0 KB New version.c:merge_variable_set_lists() function http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=15757item_file_id=3408 ___

[bug #15757] circular variable_set_list causes hang on SunOS

2006-02-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15757 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed Component Version:None = 3.80 Fixed Release:

RE: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
:-/. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist

RE: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
=memcheck --leak-check=full \ make -k -j 4 variants=dyn_dbg --warn-undefined-variables everything It will be slow: twice as slow or more. But, it's a great tool. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
in the original text, before expansion. I'll add a note about this as it's a behavior change, even though I consider it a bug fix. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

[bug #15818] SEGV in hash set code

2006-02-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15818 (project make): Assigned to:None = psmith ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Ah! Any reproducible test case is extremely useful. OK, this bug is not difficult to see.

RE: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
worried might break something that I can't test easily. So, if you could find some time to verify (or not) this patch before the weekend that would be great! Cheers! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find

RE: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
Thanks for testing this. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am

Re: GNU make 3.81rc1 released -- please test.

2006-02-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
Thanks Steve; It seems like your problems are all on Windows-type systems, not UNIX-type systems: you might have better luck posting them on the make-w32@gnu.org mailing list. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

[bug #15913] Target-specific immediate append operator not working as expected

2006-02-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15913 (project make): Assigned to:None = psmith ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Please see this reply I sent to the original message on the bug-make mailing list:

Re: svn 14407 broke the repository.

2006-03-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make

[bug #15919] Make-3.81 rc1 hangs with -j 2 but not with -j 1

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #15919 (project make): Not offhand. I haven't looked at it carefully enough. I did spend about 10 mins: just enough to verify that I can reproduce it. I also enabled debugging and I can see that it's looping forever, not just hanging. Make seems to think that it's

Re: svn 14407 broke the repository.

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist

[bug #15718] Weird behavior of the SHELL variable on Win32

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #13, bug #15718 (project make): Well, you can't assume that just because _on UNIX_ make forcibly adds a -c to every $(SHELL) invocation, that it also does the same thing in the other ports. There's a lot of special code to handle different types of shell on Windows; Eli etc.

Re: virtual memory exhausted

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
download and unpack it): ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81rc1.tar.gz -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: svn 14407 broke the repository.

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
tries to run the h;y/[a-z]/[A-Z]/ rl thing through /bin/sh instead of sed. This doesn't appear to be a rl sed problem, but a make problem. I'll need more info about this before I can give an opinion. -- --- Paul D

Re: Make-3.81 rc1 hangs with -j 2 (multiplatform)

2006-03-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
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[bug #16002] rc1 always rebuild Linux kernel sources (even after a just completed compile)

2006-03-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #16002 (project make): The kernel 2.6 build environment is relying on an incorrect behavior of GNU make which was fixed in the latest rc1. We're trying to determine what to do about it now. For more information please see:

[bug #15937] default_names test dies on Cygwin; $port_type = 'UNIX'; should be 'W32'

2006-03-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15937 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

Re: kbuild: Problem with latest GNU make rc

2006-03-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist

[bug #15718] Weird behavior of the SHELL variable on Win32

2006-03-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #18, bug #15718 (project make): OK, I've applied Eli's patch. This bug/thread has gotten way out of control: I can't determine what's actually a real problem and what's just a misunderstanding. Can one or more of the principles followup with a comment clarifying what the real

Re: busybox triggers a possible bug in make-3.81rc1 and 3.81beta4

2006-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
)/%.o: $(srcdir)/%.c |$(objdir)/dir ... Obviously, though, this is a bug that needs to be fixed. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

[bug #15942] test_driver.pl - run_each_test() fails to set $status when test dies, prints value of $status from prior test

2006-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15942 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16051] Non-existent prerequisites are not included in $?

2006-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=16051 Summary: Non-existent prerequisites are not included in $? Project: make Submitted by: psmith Submitted on: Thu 03/09/06 at 20:55 Severity: 3 - Normal

[bug #16002] rc1 always rebuild Linux kernel sources (even after a just completed compile)

2006-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16002 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #15942] test_driver.pl - run_each_test() fails to set $status when test dies, prints value of $status from prior test

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #15942 (project make): I believe normal W32 was fixed in rc1, and cygwin builds will be fixed in the next release. Perl provides a way to test whether the system supports symlinks and that's what I use originally. For some reason, though, the Windows port of Perl

[bug #15942] test_driver.pl - run_each_test() fails to set $status when test dies, prints value of $status from prior test

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #15942 (project make): They are already disabled on any system where the $port_type is W32, and/or any system where symlinks don't work. You can test this in Perl but the Windows port of Perl reports that they do work (odd). If you find that this isn't working please

[bug #16051] Non-existent prerequisites are not included in $?

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #16051 (project make): Well, I thought about this. However, I don't really want to introduce a temporary target then deprecate it again. Also, this problem has existed in virtually every version of GNU make and no one mentioned it until late last year, so I think it

[bug #15938] functions/foreach test uses non-existent $port_type value

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15938 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #15947] tests/features/escape - 'path=p\:' test fails on Cygwin - cannot stat illegal filename

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15947 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #15968] make fails trying to stat a .PHONY target: p:foo

2006-03-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15968 (project make): Item Group: Bug = Enhancement ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Hm. I'm not sure that there's anywhere in the make manual that says or implies that simply

[bug #16088] make -r causes virtual memory exhausted error in make on AIX only

2006-03-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16088 (project make): Status:None = Duplicate Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: This is a duplicate of

[bug #15913] Target-specific immediate append operator not working as expected

2006-03-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #15913 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:None = CVS

[bug #16053] second stem overwrites the first per-prerequisite stem

2006-03-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #16053 (project make): Hm. I don't know if we can release 3.81 with this kind of regression: it's different than releasing with a bug in new behavior or with an old bug not fixed. Another idea which would resolve this problem but not the general case (when

[bug #16108] Seg fault when special variable syntax contains parentheses

2006-03-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16108 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

Re: Patch for maintMakefile:do-po-update

2006-03-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
OK, I put something similar to this in for the next release. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org

[bug #16132] Quoting problem in 3.81rc1

2006-03-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16132 (project make): Status:None = Works for me ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I can't reproduce this on GNU/Linux; both rc1 and the latest CVS code work fine. Please provide

GNU make 3.81rc2 has been released

2006-03-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
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[bug #16118] Change of behavior in beta[34] for -include

2006-03-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16118 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: As best as I can tell

[bug #16138] multiple jobservers started up by parallel make (and so uses 4 FDs instead of just 2)

2006-03-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16138 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16132] Quoting problem in 3.81rc1

2006-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #16132 (project make): Can you please remove the @ prefix from your echo commands, and then re-run your test. Show us the output make prints (which are the commands that it's sending to the shell) against the command you expect to be run and what actually gets invoked

[bug #16140] make 3.81rc2: performance decrease when searching builtin implicit rules compared to 3.80

2006-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #16140 (project make): If it's a simple-enough change and doesn't cause problems with the regression tests it's fine with me to fix it. Do you have access to valgrind and/or gprof to check the performance etc.?

[bug #16145] .SECONDARY: prevents non-existent dependency from forcing rebuild

2006-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16145 (project make): I think you have two choices, at least one of which should work :-). Either way I think you have to get the .SECONDARY: global target out of there. Anyway, you can do two things: first, you can mention all the files that would otherwise be

[bug #16145] .SECONDARY: prevents non-existent dependency from forcing rebuild

2006-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16145 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #5: Ok, closing as per

[bug #16170] make 3.81rc2: compile warnings on AIX

2006-03-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16170 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16132] Quoting problem in 3.81rc1

2006-03-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #20, bug #16132 (project make): Pieter: thanks for debugging this, it's very helpful! I'd like to do something with this bug before the release (which is imminent) if possible; is it not a bug after all? I notice that the change to include echo in the BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL

Re: Contradicting license informations in make.texi

2006-03-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
accordingly. Cheers! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am

Re: mixed implicit rules problem

2006-03-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
rule recursion. Avoiding implicit rule recursion. No implicit rule found for `a/b/c/libz.so'. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: mixed implicit rules problem

2006-03-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
it as a bug with a group of Enhancement on the Savannah project page for GNU make. I can't guarantee anything will happen but it's the best way to get something like this considered for the future. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: Regression in make 3.81, still present in rc2

2006-03-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist

[bug #16236] po file update conflicts with autoconf conventions

2006-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16236 (project make): Item Group:None = Documentation Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:

[bug #16132] Quoting problem in 3.81rc1

2006-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16132 (project make): Status:Works for me = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #22: I looked at

[bug #106] make reports misleading line number in error message

2006-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #106 (project make): Fixed Release: CVS = 3.81 ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=106

[bug #108] implicit prerequisite makes bad assumptions

2006-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #108 (project make): Fixed Release: CVS = 3.81 ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=108

[bug #127] Intermediate file deletion using pattern rules with multiple targets not correct

2006-03-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #127 (project make): Fixed Release: CVS = 3.81 ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=127

[bug #9062] Need access to pathname of Makefile

2006-04-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #9062 (project make): Even simpler is to look at the NEWS file; all user-visible changes should be documented there: Version 3.80 ... * A new built-in variable is defined, $(MAKEFILE_LIST). [...] ... Version 3.77 ... * Make defines a new variable, CURDIR,

[bug #8297] Add a non-posix feature for parallel mode.

2006-04-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #8297 (project make): Yes, but I don't like that syntax because it seems to allow both kinds of rules to be defined at the same time; consider: foo + bar baz boz + biz: What does this mean? In discussions on the GNU make developers' list we discussed a syntax like

Re: Clock skew detected warning

2006-04-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
on the make-w32@gnu.org mailing list to see if they have any advice there... this is a Windows-specific issue and they know much more about Windows than the folks reading this list. Good luck! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

[bug #9062] Need access to pathname of Makefile

2006-04-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #9062 (project make): GNU make does not and has never supported a built-in variable $(PWD). Of course, GNU make does now and has always (just like every other make) imported environment variables exported from the invoking process into GNU make variables, and some

Re: Probable Spam: make 3.81 cannot build gcc 4.x.y

2006-04-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
, but the only way to know for sure is if someone can tell us in which part of GCC the multilib is built so we can look at it. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org

[bug #14684] make fails if LC_CTYPE is iso_8859_1

2006-04-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #14684 (project make): This is pretty clearly a bug in Solaris; the POSIX spec says: blank Define characters to be classified as blanks. In the POSIX locale, only the space

Re: make 3.81 cannot build gcc 4.x.y

2006-04-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
/newline pair in the script sent to the shell. See the NEWS file. I'm not 100% sure why that's a syntax error, but... n http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27023 -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [bug #14684] make fails if LC_CTYPE is iso_8859_1

2006-04-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bp Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like for Solaris 10 they introduced an implementation of isblank() into the standard header files, which didn't used to be there (it's not on my Solaris 8 system for example). bp For what it's

[bug #16286] VPATH and directory cache

2006-04-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16286 (project make): All of the behavior you see, as far as I can tell, is expected. The documentation of vpath shows that if the target needs to be rebuilt then the vpath-qualified pathname is thrown away and the target is rebuilt locally (which means that when this

[bug #105] Parallel builds should order by slowest-first

2006-04-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #105 (project make): Closed support #105307 as a duplicate of this bug. See the details on that support request because it's slightly different, but any solution for this problem should ideally be hookable so that a generic re-ordering of prerequisites is possible.

Re: change in SHELL behavior: feature, right ?

2006-04-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
the GCC makefiles already require GNU make. You could add a setting of SHELL directly into the command script for those rules where it makes a difference. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU

[bug #16376] command execution with make -q

2006-04-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16376 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: This behavior is as

Re: Objective-C patch *ping*

2006-04-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
don't lose track of this. Thanks! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I

Re: @dircategory for make

2006-04-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
OK, will do. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am

Re: @dircategory for make

2006-04-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
? -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist ___ Bug

Re: PHP installation error..

2006-04-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
they have some clue as to what operations might be causing these errors. Good luck! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http

Re: Bug - The inability to work around this error

2006-05-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
). This mailing list is only for bugs in the GNU make program itself. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain

[bug #16505] Line-continuation backslashes are not stripped

2006-05-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #16505 (project make): I think the INTENT was to allow embedded newlines. However, the implementation only works for tools which will ignore the backslash as well. Some UNIX tools do this; many don't. You _have_ to have the newline in the makefile, because make does

[bug #16505] Line-continuation backslashes are not stripped

2006-05-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #16505 (project make): Argh. I mean You _have_ to have the BACKSLASH in the makefile, in the second paragraph of the previous comment :-/ ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #16545] Escaping a : in an escaped substition reference on a prereq line dumps core

2006-05-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=16545 Summary: Escaping a : in an escaped substition reference on a prereq line dumps core Project: make Submitted by: psmith Submitted on: Sunday 05/07/06 at 14:56

[bug #16531] Substitution reference and secondary expansion

2006-05-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16531 (project make): The OP is correct: it's not the %, it's the :. Because the variable reference is escaped, make doesn't skip over it when parsing the command line like it normally would, and instead make sees the second : inside the substitution reference and

[bug #13479] Compile errors and warnings - Microsoft compiler 13.10 (.NET 7.1)

2006-05-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #13479 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

2006-05-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
to provide patches and do the testing. As long as it doesn't appear to impact the other ports, I generally just apply patches which have been agreed to by a quorum on the make-w32@gnu.org list. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

2006-05-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
to see what that actually means. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I may be mad

Re: Spelling error on Page 3 on GNU make 3.81 PDF file lise should be line

2006-06-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% George Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gw If you have enabled secondary expansion (see Section 3.10 gw [Secondary Expansion], page 19) and you want a literal dollar sign gw in the prerequisites lise, you must actually write four dollar gw signs (\x8C

[bug #17105] problem colon after drive letter in prerequisite

2006-07-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17105 (project make): Status:None = Works for me Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: This appears to be a

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
have been having lately. It's all good! Cheers! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org Please remain calm...I

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% John W. Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jwe On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: | This would be very tricky: right now all the code to do DOS vs. POSIX | pathnames is controlled through #ifdefs, so it's a compile-time thing. | Changing it to a runtime thing would be a lot of work, I

[bug #17521] target-specific variables inluding semicolon

2006-08-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #17521 (project make): Actually, Eli, if the example shown is accurate (I haven't tried it) then this seems to be a bug. First note that the two cases behave differently: the one without the semicolon strips the backslash and the one with it does not. That can't be

[bug #17529] Variable set with $(shell date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S') changes mid-make

2006-08-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17529 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Please see the GNU

Re: Report this to bug-make@gnu.org

2006-09-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
Thanks; this will be fixed in the next version of GNU make. Cheers! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org

[bug #17665] Content of computed variable name not considered as dependency

2006-09-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17665 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I do not know if this

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

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17880 (project make): Item Group:None = Documentation ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17880 ___ Message

[bug #16304] Small update needed to Section 3.5

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16304 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16577] commas inside inline-comments are parsed

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16577 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #16652] typo in make(1) manpage in cvs / 3.81

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #16652 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #17701] Description of .NOTPARALLEL is incorrect

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17701 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

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

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17880 (project make): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = psmith Open/Closed:Open = Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #17883] target-specific variables prevent builtin rules

2006-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #17883 (project make): Status:None = Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: As Philip points out,

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