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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	occitan@esperanto.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compiling git with makepp patch
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:20:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100826002045.GC2850@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8w3upan6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>>> GNU make, unlike, say, pmake, reads all the rules before it runs
>>>> anything iirc.
[...]
> I am not sure about the "reread" part, but shouldn't all POSIX compliant
> make be topology driven (i.e. " reads all the rules before it runs
> anything")?

Yes, you are right.

I was thinking of something else, namely that

-- 8< --
#!/bin/sh

cat <<\EOF >Makefile &&
.foo.bar:
	cp $< $@

.SUFFIXES: .foo .bar
EOF

echo hello >test.foo &&
pmake test.bar
-- >8 --

fails while the corresponding script for GNU make succeeds.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-26  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <84FD9808A65CDF4C959FDB41FC3D134CBCF306D6@MSSRVS4.atlas.de>
2010-08-22 22:31 ` Compiling git with makepp patch Daniel Pfeiffer
2010-08-23  7:47   ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-23  9:00     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-08-25 21:08     ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2010-08-23 20:27   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-25 20:58     ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2010-08-24  4:32   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-25 20:41     ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2010-08-25 21:56       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-25 22:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-26  0:20           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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