Re: [joshk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Bug#271196: makefile completion catches some delayed expansions as targets]

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:24:58PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > Should we move toward 20277 instead?
> 
> I'm curious what people think about that new version of _make that
> avoids using perl and awk.

A quick test suggests the performance is perfectly acceptable with a
typical makefile.  I haven't gone into much detail.

I did notice that this target:

  builds/$(CONFIG)/stamp-builddir

gets shortened to

  builds//stamp-builddir

I realise there it's not likely to be able to do the substitution
properly, but I'm not sure why it's doing it at all.  (The basic
substitution problem is the same for include files.)

However, none of this is any worse than in the old system; in fact, it
appears to find a lot more targets and be better about stripping
colons.  So I can't see any reason not to use it.

pws


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