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Re: make aborts
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: make aborts |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:28:21 -0400 |
%% Stefan Seefeld <address@hidden> writes:
ss> here is a little Makefile that makes make version 3.79.1 abort:
ss> ---
ss> .FORCE:
ss> a:
ss> .FORCE
I assume the above is some kind of line wrapping error in your mail
client, since it doesn't make any sense as-is, and this really meant:
a: .FORCE
ss> @echo "foobar is $(foobar)"
ss> a: foobar+="foobar"
ss> ---
ss> it runs fine when I call 'make', but with 'make foobar="bla"'
ss> it aborts (with a meaningful error message).
There has been a patch floating around for this for a long time; you can
get it from the archives, or you can get a prerelease I made of the next
version (this doesn't have most of the changes that will be in the new
version of make: it has a number of bug fixes and it implements the
latest auto* tools: I released to try to get the auto* changes a wider
testing).
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.79.2a1.tar.gz
ss> By the way, I sent in a bug report almost a year ago about errors
ss> when resolving target patterns in specific cases, but never got
ss> any feedback. Is make actually maintained these days ? Should I
ss> send the bugreport again ?
Please do.
When you do so, please try to find a way to include examples in your
email verbatim, so they are not auto-wrapped like the above. It makes
it _very_ difficult to read your makefiles when newlines are not
maintained properly.
Thanks.
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- make aborts, Stefan Seefeld, 2002/07/05
- Re: make aborts,
Paul D. Smith <=