Philip Guenther wrote:
>BTW, $(lastword ${MAKEFILE_LIST}) is _not_ always the makefile
>being parsed
>at that moment, particularly when there's an 'include'
>directive earlier in
>the makefile. There's in fact no 100% general and reliable
>way to get the
>name of the file that's being parsed.
Hmm...
Wouldn't MAKEFILE_LIST be more useful if it always contained the list of
makefiles that lead from the top makefile to the current one?
E.g. given makefiles A, B, C and D. If A includes B and B includes D and
then C. Then MAKEFILE_LIST would contain:
"A" when parsing A,
"A B" when parsing B,
"A B C" when parsing C and
"A B D" when parsing D
Wouldn't that make more sense?
/Lasse
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>Subject: [bug #23928] Add MAKEFILE variable
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>Follow-up Comment #3, bug #23928 (project make):
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>Icarus Sparry wrote:
>> You probably want lastword, rather than firstword.
>
>Nope. To quote the original request:
>
>> It is often useful to recursively call the current makefile
>> as part of a rule. Sometimes rules are included from a
>> different file. The included file may not know the name of
>> the make file used to start the make process.
>
>The request was for the name of "the make file used to start the make
>process", which would be $(firstword ${MAKEFILE_LIST}).
>
>(The use of the phrase "current makefile" is slightly
>ambiguous, but I think
>the last sentence makes it clear that it is meant to refer to
>the makefile
>that started the whole deal.)
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