Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:43:39 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make fails Message-ID: <199606241643.CAA31225@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to print out the ld invocation line >>> too? >> >> No more than to add -v to CFLAGS. >Well, I'd think that you should either print both the cc -c invocation >and the ld invocation, or neither. It's very confusing to just leave >some of them out. Personally, I'm for having them both there. No, because the ld -x -r step is just to overcome the inability of cc to handle the -x step. >> @ is often misused in makefiles, but one running current should be >> able to run make -n to see exactly what make would do. >Sure. How long does a make -n world run for? Does it really descend >properly into all subdirectories? Who expects this behaviour? The >current situation is just plain misleading. I don't know about make world because I never run it. make -n is fast but almost useless because it doesn't descend. The lib behaviour is expected by everyone who understands the library makefiles. Bruce
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