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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:08:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users)
Subject:   Re: make fails
Message-ID:  <199606250608.IAA21579@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606241643.CAA31225@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 25, 96 02:43:39 am

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Bruce Evans writes:
>
>>>> 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.

I don't see what that has to do with it.  If you show the command
invocations, you should show the command invocations, whatever their
raison d'être.

>>> @ 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.

That's what I thought.

> The lib behaviour is expected by everyone who understands the
> library makefiles.

Which makes about 20 people?

Greg



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