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bug #51278: Support for the specification of special build properties together with each make rule

Submitter:  Markus Elfring <elfring>
Submitted:  Tue 20 Jun 2017 01:30:32 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  Wont Fix Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  4.2.1 Operating System:  Any
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Sun 02 Jul 2017 04:07:06 PM UTC, comment #2: 


> .SUFFIXES is an entirely different thing and doesn't belong on this list: it doesn't modify a target.


Is this target relevant for suffix rules?


>.SECONDEXPANSION is a boolean flag for the entire make process, it doesn't apply to specific targets.


I would appreciate if such a software detail can be adjusted anyhow.


> I think it's fine to have them specified on a separate line.


I imagine that it could be occasionally more appropriate to specify special make rule properties in the same line (at the beginning) so that the repetition of target names could be avoided.

Markus Elfring <elfring>
Sun 02 Jul 2017 03:48:45 PM UTC, comment #1: 

.SUFFIXES is an entirely different thing and doesn't belong on this list: it doesn't modify a target.

.SECONDEXPANSION is a boolean flag for the entire make process, it doesn't apply to specific targets.

I don't see any straightforward syntactic way to include the per-target special modifiers within the rule.  I think it's fine to have them specified on a separate line.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Tue 20 Jun 2017 01:30:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

Special built-in target names are provided by the make software. Some of them have got special consequences on the handling of prerequisites and targets.

  • .PHONY
  • .SUFFIXES
  • .INTERMEDIATE
  • .SECONDEXPANSION


Such names provide an interface for the specification of additional software build properties which did not fit into traditional syntax for make rules.
I imagine that it can also become useful to specify desired extra build settings in front of each rule directly without repeating (special) target names.
How do you think about to add such a possibility?

Markus Elfring <elfring>

 

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