Re: ELPA -- making individual packages

[Stefan Kangas]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I just realized to my horror that my Gnorb package in ELPA barfs up
> several screenfuls of warnings when it compiles. I'd like to fix those
> warnings by compiling it with a clean batch Emacs, using the GNUmakefile
> in the git repo, but my only option is to make *all* the packages at
> once, and that fails almost immediately on cpio-mode.
>
> Can "make" do catchall targets, where for instance I could say "make
> gnorb" and make would check that "gnorb" isn't an existing target, and
> the catchall target would say "if the directory "packages/gnorb" exists
> then compile that, otherwise bail"?
>
> I'm guessing the answer is no...

AFAIK, the answer is indeed no.

This has also been discussed in Bug#38140:

    https://debbugs.gnu.org/38140