Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code

[Philip Guenther]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Mark Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Paul Smith
>> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:57 PM
...
>>  ifneq ($(filter else-if,$(.FEATURES)),else-if)
>>    $(error Version $(MAKE_VERSION) does not support else-if)
>>  endif
>
> Are you saying that this statement can be placed outside
> of a make target recipe command sequence,
> and would be executed before the target recipe command sequence ?

The answer to your question can be found in the GNU make info pages.
Or, you could just TRY IT AND GET THE ANSWER INSTANTLY.

...
>> In GNU make 4.0 the --trace option was introduced.  From the NEWS file:
>>
>>  * New command line option: --trace enables tracing of targets.  When
>> enabled
...
> Does this trace capability display the full evaluated automatic variables ?
> Why not include a sample paste of its output.

You've been unwilling to given any specific examples of your problems,
makefile snippets, or output, and yet you question when other don't
provide them?  Since you obviously don't have the current version of
make installed, why would anyone bother?


Philip Guenther