Re: GPC git

On 28 Jul 2012 at 18:58, Jay Michael wrote:

[...]

 gmake lets you put the first command ("line" of the "recipe")

at the end of the line of prerequisites, using a semicolon to separate the command from the prerequisites.

      a: b c ; d

is supposed to be the same as

      a: b c
          d

 The at-sign ('@') is supposed to suppress the printing of the

command.

Indeed.

 It looks like, in the building of two pseudo-targets by 

specifying them as prerequisites of yet another pseudo-target, someone wanted to specify a do-nothing recipe for the top-level target (maybe to keep it from inheriting implicit recipes, maybe to suppress a "don't know how to make" message). So he told it to run the program "true", which always terminates with an exit status of "SUCCESS".

Yes.

 I think your real problem is that you somehow don't have this

program "true" visible.

It is visible. What the shell doesn't like is the "@" sign (i.e., in "@true"). Just running "true" as Waldek suggests works fine - but the command line is printed (which is quite fine IMHO). Removing the semi-colon and the "true" or "@true" after it also works okay - but who knows whether it can cause problems on another platform? So I guess we should simply removing the "@" sign as suggested by Waldek. I don't pretend to understand unix shells very intimately, so perhaps the best option is minimal intervention.

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