Dear Rakesh, Many thanks for your two e-mails and for the nice makefile-only solution you propose.
I definitely find it elegant and also interesting from a "cultural" or "theoretical" point of view to know that there _is_ a Makefile-only solution to this. That being said, I must also take maintainability and readability by others into account, so I went for the external shell script solution. Best wishes and thanks to all for your enlightening contributions, Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make