Subject: Make target/dependency expansion
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: After 5 PM please slip brain through slot in door. <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/1997 08:06:10
Woof.
I have a question regarding make's target and dependency rules.
Does there exist a mechanism such that, given a dependency:
obj.${ARCH}/%.o: src/%.c
make will, when handed obj.${ARCH}/main.o, attempt to compile src/main.c
[and like that]?
Has anyone thought of implementing it if it doesn't exist?
How hard does it look?
The current implementation does not appear to support it, but with
NetBSD I can never tell what's implemented where (xargs is a minimal
subset of what xargs is supposed to be capable of).
Unfortunately, this is hosing a quite dear off-the-net project I'd
LOVE to see actually work.
--*greywolf;
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