* bug#42022: --print-data-base should be unambiguous and more easily machine-read
@ 2020-06-23 15:43 Daniel Colascione
2020-06-24 13:34 ` Noam Postavsky
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From: Daniel Colascione @ 2020-06-23 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 42022
It's occasionally useful to parse the output of make --print-data-base,
e.g., for tab completion. Unfortunately, the current (well, 4.2, but I
don't see that it's changed in 4.3) output format prints newlines in
variable definitions verbatim, making it possible for variable contents to
appear (from the point of view of a --print-data-base output parser) to be
makefile directive. For example:
# Begin spoof.mk
define nl
endef
spoof:=$(nl)$(nl)\# Files$(nl)$(nl)foo: bar$(nl)
# End spoof.mk
Make should emit variable variables in a form that cannot be confused with
makefile directives.
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* bug#42022: --print-data-base should be unambiguous and more easily machine-read
2020-06-23 15:43 bug#42022: --print-data-base should be unambiguous and more easily machine-read Daniel Colascione
@ 2020-06-24 13:34 ` Noam Postavsky
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From: Noam Postavsky @ 2020-06-24 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Colascione; +Cc: 42022
"Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> It's occasionally useful to parse the output of make
> --print-data-base, e.g., for tab completion. Unfortunately, the
> current (well, 4.2, but I don't see that it's changed in 4.3) output
I guess this report is intended for GNU Make, you can create it at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=make
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