Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 16:50 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
>> Any followups on this?
>
> I actually committed the first three patches this morning, before you
> sent this. I would like to commit the fourth patch this evening. I
> want to think a bit about how to address one issue: I'd really love to
> avoid constructs specific to GNU make, such as ifeq and $(shell). I
> managed to find a way to do that for the patch adding clean kernel-style
> build output, by using the text substitution feature of make variable
> expansion. However, I haven't yet figured out a way to avoid $(shell)
> with this patch. The c2xml target can just always exist, so no
> conditionals needed there. However, without $(shell), I don't see any
> way to handle adding c2xml to PROGRAMS and INST_PROGRAMS without
> $(shell); backquotes will only work in the commands of a target, not the
> prerequisites. (Obviously, just leaving c2xml out of the all and
> install targets would solve the problem, but that seems quite
> suboptimal.) I want to think about this problem for a bit, and if I
> don't come up with anything and don't get any good suggestions, I may
> just go ahead and require GNU make.
OK, forget it. Anyone who wants Sparse to work with non-GNU make gets to rack
*their* brain thinking about how to do without useful GNU make features.
Patch applied...
> Also, you didn't update the dtd for the changes to the position
> handling; it doesn't have end-file, and it still has start and end
> rather than {start,end}-{line,col}.
... and I fixed this myself.
Thanks again for some most impressive work.
- Josh Triplett
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