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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2013-09-22 17:10:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2013-09-22 17:10:35 -0400 |
| commit | 1a1624b03ebf0f520758d670545e97867ff1a799 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d37ecd654330e2208421534e9d2d88896b779f9 /doc | |
| parent | 6f64c399845d6187cf0bf2b6486e1089ebd239a4 (diff) | |
| download | make-1a1624b03ebf0f520758d670545e97867ff1a799.tar.gz | |
Allow loaded objects to opt out of the "auto-rebuild" feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/make.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi index 62c71910..f89f8b77 100644 --- a/doc/make.texi +++ b/doc/make.texi @@ -10910,7 +10910,8 @@ The @code{load} directive and extension capability is considered a ``technology preview'' in this release of GNU make. We encourage you to experiment with this feature and we appreciate any feedback on it. However we cannot guarantee to maintain backward-compatibility in the -next release. +next release. Consider using GNU Guile instead for extending GNU make +(@pxref{Guile Function, ,The @code{guile} Function}). @end quotation @end cartouche @@ -10978,7 +10979,9 @@ same directive. The initializing function will be provided the file name and line number of the invocation of the @code{load} operation. It should return a value of type @code{int}, which must be @code{0} on failure -and non-@code{0} on success. +and non-@code{0} on success. If the return value is @code{-1}, then +GNU make will @emph{not} attempt to rebuild the object file +(@pxref{Remaking Loaded Objects, ,How Loaded Objects Are Remade}). For example: |