Re: flushing output in make

[ma]

"Philip Guenther" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> On 7/17/06, ma <address@hidden> wrote:
>>     I have a make file that is similar to this one:
>>
>> foo:
>>     @echo please wait...
>>     $(foreach ..... )  # a lengthy work
>>
>> It is working but I the output of echo appears only after foreach
>> finished! But I need it to appear before foreach started. What can I do?
>
> Make expands all of its variables and functions in the commands for a
> target before executing any of them; it isn't done on a line-by-line
> basis.  So, you have two choices:
>
> 1) do the "lengthy work" using shell constructs instead of make
>     constructs
> 2) do the echo using make's $(info) function which was added in 3.81
>
> Since you don't actually show the real commands, it's impossible for
> us to say which choice will be more maintainable.  Choice (2) will
> certainly be faster to implement...if you can upgrade to 3.81.
>
>
> Philip Guenther

Hello Philip,
   Thanks for your information. here is the code that I have:
rtlib.lib: $(rtLibModules)
    @echo Building $@ please wait
    $(foreach n, $(rtLibModules), $(shell $(AR) -qur $@ $(n)))

This is the only way that I could manage to run the make without problem. 
Look at my other post on command line limitation.
As I am working on an add on project and the original product shipped with 
gmake version 3.8, I can't update to gmake 3.81

Best regards