Re: Changes in make infrastructure

[Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>]

Max Okumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to commit a few patches that change the behavoir of make
> sometime next week.  And I would like some feed back before I do
> this.  This is work that harti has done.
>
>     1. Make the parser more strict for directives for example
>         .if, .else, .elif, .endif, etc.
>        Right now the parser accepts things like
>         .undefFOO
>         .elseif (other condition)
>     
>         the first case is equivilant to .undef FOO which isn't
>         bad, but the second case is really bad since you would
>         never know that it was treat the other condition as a
>         comment.
>
>         The new parser requires a space after the directive token.
>         and warns about non-comments after .else and .endif
>
>         This however, causes make to emit warnings for some of our
>         makefiles.  patch-3.0 puts a # after the directives to
>         silence the warnings.  (Its a standard diff since the unfied
>         diff is much bigger.)

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I plan on commiting patch-3.0 later today since it doesn't change
behavior, just makes it clear that the stuff following the directives
are really comments.

					Max