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Re: src/Makefile unhelpful
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: src/Makefile unhelpful |
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Wed, 07 Sep 2022 05:41:03 +0300 |
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:19:08 -0400
>
> Building temacs, when compiling the C source files, outputs lines like these
>
> CC dispnew.o
> CC frame.o
> CC scroll.o
> CC xdisp.o
>
> which don't show the arguments actually used.
> (Why does it show that instead of the actual command?
> What code in the Makefile causes this?
> Perhaps add comments to explain this.)
>
> To show all the arguments on each line would be a nuisance,
> but when one wants to investigate what they were,
> I find no easy way to do it. How do you do that?
The way to see the arguments is to say
make V=1
> Anyway, I think it would be useful for each make run to output, for
> debugging, each actual command. It could show each of the usual
> commands once, or (if it isn't hard) only the usual commands that were
> actually executed. To show, for instance, what this expands into:
>
> $(AM_V_CC)$(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(PROFILING_CFLAGS)
>
> at least if the .c.o rule is ever used.
I think this is rarely needed, so having it silent by default is
better.
- src/Makefile unhelpful, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/06
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Po Lu, 2022/09/06
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/07
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Sam James, 2022/09/08
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/10
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/11
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/11
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Po Lu, 2022/09/11
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/11
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/11
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/13
- Re: src/Makefile unhelpful, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/13