From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:15:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix parallel make problem
Message-ID: <20070831081517.GB17637@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <7vabs82kcq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix parallel make problem
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:
> 
> >> +.PRECIOUS: $(patsubst test-%$X,test-%.o,$(TEST_PROGRAMS))
> >> +
> >>  test-%$X: test-%.o $(GITLIBS)
> >>  	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(filter %.o,$^) $(LIBS)
> >
> > Add a comment here?
> 
> I did not see a particular need for that.  What would you say
> there?

That it's a work-around for make bug.

> >> Warning: 1 path touched but unmodified. Consider running git-status.
> >
> > BTW, shouldn't the warning go to standard error?
> 
> No, usually you are under PAGER, so we need to send this to
> stdout.  We do this only when we are generating textual diff
> which will be consumed by patch or git-apply.  They both know
> how to ignore such a non patch material.

So how did this end up in your mail?

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MST