From: "Jun T." <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update make completion with gnu options
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:44:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81AA93C9-EB39-4018-86D2-F6DEDF0AB2C7@kba.biglobe.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20457.1374139275@thecus.kiddle.eu>
On 2013/07/18, at 18:21, Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Why the last '-f' is necessary here?
>
> Because otherwise, most non-GNU make's will actually attempt to make
> stuff. The -v enables distributed building with some implementations of
> make, for example. Unlike -v, the -f option is fairly standard and
> supplying it without a filename is a fairly good way to ensure that any
> make will print an error and exit.
Aha! Thanks for the clarification.
(important tricks of the trade are always undocumented...)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-18 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 6:46 Nick Cross
2013-07-12 8:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-07-12 23:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-07-13 17:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-07-17 15:35 ` Jun T.
2013-07-18 9:21 ` Oliver Kiddle
2013-07-18 11:44 ` Jun T. [this message]
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