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Re: [PATCH] {yacc-work} coverage: more on 'yacc -d' and recovery from de


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] {yacc-work} coverage: more on 'yacc -d' and recovery from deleted headers
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:03:01 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:48:12PM CET:
> On Saturday 29 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > (automake will not produce a rule for some target if you put a
> > rule for that target in the Makefile.am, even if your rule does
> > not contain commands;
> >
> JFTR: I never liked this behaviour, which IMHO greatly reduce the
> transparency of automake.  But that's for another thread anyway
> (and another day, probably).

Like it or not, it is very hard to change.  Lots of code has come to
depend on the current semantics; and there are the parsing issues for
GNU make-specific code.  Plus, the behavior can be very useful at times.

Cheers,
Ralf



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