Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 6/8] Makefile.maint: sync from coreutils
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
If you're taking feature requests, one thing I'd like for the
syntax-check
;-) Always.
target is for it to print out the name of each check it is running.
We've
got quite alot of checks and so it just sits there for a long time using
100% cpu and with no feedback as to what its doing.
Good idea.
Doing that, at first I thought I'd have to generate a makefile snippet
and "-include" it, but finally realized there is a cleaner way:
I've just done the following to coreutils, so it'll be pulled in soon,
with the next sync:
From 44421c22a3c9aca7b7899b9fa8037d89dddaff20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:46:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: teach "make syntax-check" to print each check name as
it's run
* maint.mk (%.m): New rules to print each syntax-checking rule name,
just before running its commands.
($(syntax-check-rules)): Depend on it.
---
maint.mk | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index 38724c2..65cdf5b 100644
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ local-checks-available = \
makefile-check check-AUTHORS
.PHONY: $(local-checks-available)
+# Arrange to print the name of each syntax-checking rule just before running it.
+$(syntax-check-rules): %: %.m
+$(patsubst %, %.m, $(syntax-check-rules)):
+ @echo $(patsubst sc_%.m, %, $@)
+
local-check := $(filter-out $(local-checks-to-skip), $(local-checks-available))
syntax-check: $(local-check)
--
1.6.1.1.423.gc2891