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23.3.50; Use GNU, not Windows syntax in example code in flymake manual

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.3.50; Use GNU, not Windows syntax in example code in flymake manual
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 23:20:46 +0100

The flymake manual contains the following handy sample make rule:

check-syntax:
	gcc -o nul -S ${CHK_SOURCES}

But using “nul” is useful on Windows (it works on GNU too, but creates
an output file, and the point of the rule is to avoid doing that).
Hence, use the GNU syntax:

check-syntax:
	gcc -o /dev/null -S ${CHK_SOURCES}

A further suggestion is to suggest the following rule for automake users:

check-syntax:
	$(COMPILE) -o /dev/null -S $(CHK_SOURCES)

As this adds compiler flags which may be needed, for example to find
include files. A further reason this is handy is that the undocumented
make target dumpvars which is used by
flymake-get-project-include-dirs-imp cannot easily be implemented in
automake (at least, my attempt ended in tears, since it required the use
of a GNU make construct, which is not permitted in automake). The above
check-syntax target makes this unnecessary.



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Message #8 received at 8715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 8715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.3.50;
	Use GNU, not Windows syntax in example code in flymake manual
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:01:05 +0200

Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:

> The flymake manual contains the following handy sample make rule:
>
> check-syntax:
> 	gcc -o nul -S ${CHK_SOURCES}
>
> But using “nul” is useful on Windows (it works on GNU too, but creates
> an output file, and the point of the rule is to avoid doing that).
> Hence, use the GNU syntax:
>
> check-syntax:
> 	gcc -o /dev/null -S ${CHK_SOURCES}

I've now done this change in Emacs 24.

> A further suggestion is to suggest the following rule for automake users:
>
> check-syntax:
> 	$(COMPILE) -o /dev/null -S $(CHK_SOURCES)
>
> As this adds compiler flags which may be needed, for example to find
> include files. A further reason this is handy is that the undocumented
> make target dumpvars which is used by
> flymake-get-project-include-dirs-imp cannot easily be implemented in
> automake (at least, my attempt ended in tears, since it required the use
> of a GNU make construct, which is not permitted in automake). The above
> check-syntax target makes this unnecessary.

I know next to nothing about flymake, so I'm afraid I'm not a good judge
of this change, though.  Anybody?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

Message #11 received at 8715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 8715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8715: 23.3.50;
	Use GNU, not Windows syntax in example code in flymake manual
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:10:44 +0800

Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:

> A further suggestion is to suggest the following rule for automake users:
>
> check-syntax:
> 	$(COMPILE) -o /dev/null -S $(CHK_SOURCES)

I added this to the manual.  Thanks.

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