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Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83 |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:40:47 +0200 |
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>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
adl> So any solution that require a syntax that is different in
adl> prerequisites than it is in the commands seems wrong to me.
pds> I definitely agree that this incongruity is disturbing, but that's the
pds> way it is.
Don't read me wrong, that wasn't a judgement of the way things
are but an attempt to characterize an acceptable solution for
Automake. Automake is meant to produce portable Makefiles so I
don't want to introduce non-portable constructs in its generated
output, even conditionally (it's already hard enough to test).
The only place we could tolerate non-portable constructs is in
the user input (*.am) that is output almost verbatim. Hence my
statement: since users writes the variables, I'm looking for a
solution that involves only changing these variables, and since these
variables are used both in prerequisite lists and commands...
pds> Hopefully the next version of GNU make will have some more generic
pds> mechanism for quoting that will handle ALL different "special
pds> characters" that might appear in filenames, including colons and
pds> whitespace as well as dollar signs.
Excellent! That seems to be the ticket, doesn't it?
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/01
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/01
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/07/01
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, psmith, 2005/07/05
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Stepan Kasal, 2005/07/05
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, psmith, 2005/07/05
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Stepan Kasal, 2005/07/07
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Jirka Hanika, 2005/07/10
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/10
- Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Stepan Kasal, 2005/07/10
Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/07/01
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