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Re: "./contrib/gcc_update --touch" doesn't work with make


Hi,

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> > ./contrib/gcc_update has
>> >
>> >     while ${MAKE-make} -f Makefile.$$ all | grep . > /dev/null; do
>> >       sleep 1
>> >     done 2>&1
>> >
>> > It won't work at all if you run it inside a makefile. You will get
>> >
>> > make[1]: Leaving directory `...'
>> > make[1]: Entering directory `...'
>> >
>> > instead of empty line. For gnu make, I think you can use
>> >
>> >     while ${MAKE-make} -s -f Makefile.$$ all | grep . > /dev/null; do
>> 
>> If you just want to add -s to make, this is portable, as far as I can
>> see, so please go ahead and commit your change with a proper ChangeLog.
>
> It turns out that -s still doesn't work in all cases. I didn't bother
> to track it down. I just put a break in the while loop. A different
> approach may be to compare the outputs between 2 runs, like

You'll need to unset a few envvars that make 'make' think it's _not_ a
sub-make invocation:

  unset MFLAGS
  unset MAKEVARS
  unset MAKELEVEL

- Hari
-- 
Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu


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