In particular, point out that string comparison can only use != and ==
(how weird, given that the underlying call to strcmp returns more
information), that floating point values are correctly interpreted
as numbers, and that the left-hand side must be a variable expansion.
MFC after: 3 weeks
This article [1] describes the -p flag for make(1):
Write to standard output the complete set of macro definitions and
target descriptions. The output format is unspecified.
We already support a similar flag (-d g1), but unlike -p, it still
executes commands. Our implementation just turns it into -d g1, but also
sets flag `printGraphOnly', which will cause make(1) to skip execution.
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/make.html
Reviewed by: imp
PR: standards/99960
from the .MAKEFLAGS global variable even if it's empty or
unset. This means setting MAKEFLAGS to just an empty string
in the latter case.
If not doing so, make(1) behaved inconsistently WRT MAKEFLAGS.
In particular, it would let a `-f foo' option down to sub-makes
if .MAKEFLAGS was unset. E.g.,
env MAKEFLAGS="-f mymakefile" make
would pass `-f mymakefile' down to sub-makes via their environment
(unless mymakefile added something to .MAKEFLAGS).
But any additional options appearing would change this behaviour to
not passing `-f mymakefile' to sub-makes, as in:
env MAKEFLAGS="-f mymakefile" make -D DUMMY
or
env MAKEFLAGS="-f mymakefile -D DUMMY" make
(unless mymakefile cleared .MAKEFLAGS).
Also make(1) would leave MAKEFLAGS at its initial value if the
makefile set .MAKEFLAGS to an empty value. I.e., it was impossible
to override MAKEFLAGS with an empty value. (Note well that makefiles
are not to touch MAKEFLAGS directly, they alter .MAKEFLAGS instead.
So make(1) can filter out things such as -f when copying MAKEFLAGS
to .MAKEFLAGS at startup. Direct modifications to MAKEFLAGS just go
nowhere.)
While the original intentions of the BSD make authors are somewhat
unclear here, the bug proves that NOT passing -f options down is
the settled behaviour because the opposite behaviour is totally
unreliable in the presence of any other options. In addition, not
passing down -f's found in the environment is consistent with doing
so WRT the command line.
Update the manpage accordingly and make the whole description of
MAKEFLAGS and .MAKEFLAGS more consistent as this change indeed
brings more consistency into the reliable behaviour of make(1).
Submitted by: ru (main.c)
Tested with: make world
The most important point is that -f option(s) are never copied from
.Ev MAKEFILE to .Va .MAKEFILE by make(1), which is consistent with
handling the command line. (-f silently sit in .Ev MAKEFILE and go
to make's children unless overwritten via .Va .MAKEFILE)
Bump .Dd.
After reading Makefile and all the files that are included using .include
or .sinclude directives (source Makefiles) make considers each source
Makefile as a target and tries to rebuild it. Both explicit and implicit
rules are checked and all source Makefiles are updated if necessary. If
any of the source Makefiles were rebuilt, make restarts from clean state.
To prevent infinite loops the following source Makefile targets are
ignored:
- :: targets that have no prerequisites but have commands
- ! targets
- targets that have .PHONY or .EXEC attributes
- targets without prerequisites and without commands
When remaking a source Makefile options -t (touch target), -q (query
mode), and -n (no exec) do not take effect, unless source Makefile is
specified explicitly as a target in make command line.
Additionally, system makefiles and .depend are not considered as a
Makefiles that can be rebuilt.
Reviewed by: harti
before executing the shell. Until now this was done when the default
shell was the ksh. This failed if the default shell was sh or csh and
the user switched to ksh.
and tabs. This is still not correct for command line variable values
ending in a backslash because this would require a larger effort.
Document this limitation in the BUGS section of the man page. The
quoting is mostly compatible with that of gmake and smake.
Tested by: Max Okumoto and Joerg Sonnenberger from DragonFly BSD
Reviewed by: ru (man page, partly)
as environment variables and should not be set on make's command
line. They happen to work accidentially as command line variables
too when none of the sub-makes wants to play games with them (because
make is putting command line variables into the environment and will
find them there later on). Makefile.inc1 wants to change
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. In this case one cannot set it on the command line.
the MFLAGS target. Document that variable assignments from the MAKEFLAGS
environment variable and the .MAKEFLAGS and .MFLAGS target have the
same precedence as command line variable assignments.
to be executed even when -n is given on the command line to make. This is
very handy for calls to submakes.
This is slightly changed from the original patch as obtained from NetBSD.
The NetBSD variant prints lines which have both '+' and '@' when -n
is specified. The commited version always obeys '@'.
Bump MAKE_VERSION so Makefiles can use this conditionally.
PR: standards/66357 (partly)
Submitted by: Mark Baushke <mdb@juniper.net>
Obtained from: NetBSD
Replace the use of '=' in conditionals in the examples
by the more correct '=='.
Clarify the example explaining that .for expansion takes place before
.if handling by showing the correct code instead of saying 'the other
way around'. Change a variable name there so the example is more parseable
to the human reader.
PR: docs/65400
Submitted by: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz>
from the :S modifier which follows a bit further below. This way the
reader can read each of these two descriptions without having to jump
back and forth in the manpage.
PR: docs/26943
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
Use
make -V .MAKEFILE_LIST | tr \ \\n | awk '$0==".." {l--; next} {l++; printf "%*s%s\n", l, " ", $0}'
to print a tree of all included makefiles.
Approved by: joerg
MFC after: 1 week
