Re: a syntax for multitarget rules

[Tim Murphy]

Perhaps another 10 years can go by while everyone debates the perfect
combination of ascii characters to implement a very useful feature.  Then
we can all know deep in our hearts that all the egregious hacks we had to
engineer to work around the lack of this feature were at last worth it.
All the hours of headaches and weird constructs with various fatal flaws
will have been justified because XXYYZ looks nice finally.

I apologise for that but i had to get it off my chest.

Regards,

Tim

On 13 November 2014 19:33, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 14:43 +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> > On Mon Nov 10 21:44:33 2014, address@hidden (Nicholas Clark)
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Lately I've been needing to work hard to get around GNU Make's lack of
> > > simultaneous multi-target recipes. It seems like it crops up in the
> world
> > > of FPGA/ASIC/chip design, which has all kinds of ill-behaved compilers
> that
> > > produce lots of outputs simultaneously.
> >
> > I would love to see this.  However, at present, non-pattern rules and
> > pattern rules are not consistent in this respect, so  I don't see how
> > to come up with a syntax that is a natural extension of the present.
>
> I personally still like the syntax Henning proposed over 10 years ago
> (with a little tweak by me: please read the entire thread):
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-alpha/2002-12/msg00000.html
>
> There was a prototype patch posted by Henning:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-alpha/2003-01/msg00000.html
>
> I doubt it applies cleanly any more, and there's still a good bit of
> work (most particularly, we need a set of at least semi-comprehensive
> regression/unit tests for the new feature), but it's a starting point.
>
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