Re: Re: RE: real-time log

[Vikas Joshi]

I verified with gmake version 3.8 and what you say is true.

Although I have to use the following version of make and in that version what I 
say is true!
For reasons I cannot spell out I am stuck with following version. Any help is 
appreciated.

-Vikas

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>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:17:52 -0500
>From: "David Boyce" <address@hidden>
>To: <address@hidden>, "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Cc: <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: RE: real-time log
>
>At 10:27 PM 3/23/2005, Vikas Joshi wrote:
>>I should have mentioned: I am dealing with windows world. In MS Windows 
>>(2000) it does not do that. I took your example and modified it as below:
>>
>>target:
>>         echo one
>>         pause
>>         echo two
>>         pause
>>         echo three
>>
>>When I run "make target" I don't see anything until I press two keys.
>>
>>Any help on windows ?
>
>This is not reproducible here. Have a look at the following transcript:
>
>T:\>type Makefile
>all:
>         echo 1
>         pause
>         echo 2
>         pause
>         echo 3
>
>T:\>gmake --version
>GNU Make 3.80
>Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>T:\>gmake -s
>1
>Press any key to continue . . .
>2
>Press any key to continue . . .
>3
>
>As you can see, output arrives as scheduled. Whatever problem you're 
>dealing with, it's not part of the semantics of GNU (or any other) make. 
>There really is no magic in make, at least not at the command-execution 
>end: what you get from make is exactly what you would have gotten from running:
>
>         cmd /c "command line"
>
>at a shell prompt. Also, try to provide further results in a cut-and-pasted 
>form as above - a transcript is worth 1000 words.
>
>-David Boyce
>
>
>
>
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