a bit more tidying

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 - Sphinx based Python documentation generation is now wired up (Thanks
   Loup-Garou911XD!)
 - Renaming & overwriting existing profiles is no longer possible (Thanks Temp!)
+- Cleaned up builds when running under WSL. Things like `make mypy` should now
+  work correctly there, and it should now be possible to build and run either
+  Linux or Windows builds there.
 
 ### 1.7.32 (build 21741, api 8, 2023-12-20)
 - Fixed a screen message that no one will ever see (Thanks vishal332008?...)

Makefile

@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ WINDOWS_CONFIGURATION ?= Debug
 
 # Stage assets and other files so a built binary will run.
 windows-staging: assets-windows resources meta
-	$(STAGE_BUILD) -win-$(WINPLT) -$(WINCFGLC) build/windows/$(WINCFG)_$(WINPLT)
+	@$(STAGE_BUILD) -win-$(WINPLT) -$(WINCFGLC) build/windows/$(WINCFG)_$(WINPLT)
 
 # Build and run a debug windows build (from WSL).
 windows-debug: windows-debug-build
@@ -1150,8 +1150,8 @@ cmake-modular-server-clean:
 
 # Stage assets for building/running within CLion.
 clion-staging: assets-cmake resources meta
-	$(STAGE_BUILD) -cmake -debug build/clion_debug
-	$(STAGE_BUILD) -cmake -release build/clion_release
+	@$(STAGE_BUILD) -cmake -debug build/clion_debug
+	@$(STAGE_BUILD) -cmake -release build/clion_release
 
 # Tell make which of these targets don't represent files.
 .PHONY: cmake cmake-build cmake-clean cmake-server cmake-server-build	\

src/tools/pcommandbatch/pcommandbatch.c

@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ int get_running_server_port_(const struct Context_* ctx,
   cJSON* state_dict = cJSON_Parse(buf);
   if (!state_dict) {
     // An un-parseable state file is not a recoverable error; go down hard.
+    // State files are written and then moved into place so we should never
+    // see something like a half-written file.
     fprintf(stderr,
             "Fatal Error: pcommandbatch client %s_%d (pid %d):"
             " failed to parse state file value of size %zu.\n",