Re: [xwax-devel] Beta release 1.4-beta1
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From: Mark H. <ma...@xw...> - 2013-04-03 22:46:58
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Louis Adam wrote: > Do you want us to use Daniel's patch? You can if you like, but you shouldn't need to -- just only build the 'xwax' program, not the test. > What's the difference between make xwax and make ALSA=yes? Here's what I > get for each of them on Crunchbang 11 (Debian testing) > > make xwax: http://pastebin.com/rQXAjAzf > make ALSA=yes: http://pastebin.com/akZuYDHE The typical format for the make line is "make <variables> <targets>". So you can mix both variables and targets, it's not one or the other. So in the first case you're asking Make to build xwax, but not overriding any variables. In the second case you're asking it to set ALSA=yes, and then build the default targets (which is xwax plus all the tests), see [1] If you're hoping to test xwax without Daniel's patch on your machine with a buggy Make, sounds like you want: make ALSA=yes xwax You can also put variables in a .config file, so you don't have to keep remembering to type the "ALSA=yes" bit -- see the README. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Overriding -- Mark |