Re: gitweb.js build mistake

From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>
Date: Feb 28, 2025, 06:34 UTC
Message-ID: <175d9d3d-6e75-3348-6037-f1c774fc0d0c@debian.org>
In-Reply-To: <fc549e53-c3b1-4aaa-b027-19d8dae2f3a6@hogyros.de>

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025, Simon Richter wrote:

> Would an order-only dependency also work?
>
>    $(MAK_DIR_GITWEB)static/gitweb.js: | $(MAK_DIR_GITWEB)generate-gitweb-js.sh

Erk, that’s a gmake-ism. I have no idea, possibly. As a BSD make person I consider use of $^ in nōn-suffix rules generally often problematic…

Perhaps test if it indeed works; if it does, choose by whatever is the project-desired style.

Thanks, //mirabilos

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i was disappointed that there is no makefile │ but somehow the Build.sh is
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properly │ looks cleary like done by someone who knows what they are doing