"inline" using a variable

2016-10-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i "configured" binutils in a directory separate to the source directory, it generates a 11500 line Makefile containing the following fragment. Down the bottom it does: $(MAKE) $(RECURSE_FLAGS_TO_PASS) all-stage1; but "all-stage1" is not in the Makefile. I think it's got something t

Re: auto-dependency usefulness?

2003-10-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Bryce Schober wrote: When I first looked at the auto-dependency stuff at http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html, I was pretty excited, but now I'm not so sure. What I'd really like is this: lib/ foo.h foo.c src/ main.c In this scenario, foo.h declares a "library" function defined in f

Re: [RFC] time for makecc?

2004-02-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Samium Gromoff wrote: Make does expand implicit rules, patterns, $(eval $(call)) constructs, etc. In the end the whole thing become somewhat undeterministic as far as human perception goes. And make -p (print the rule database) does not help, as its a tangled mess of funky s**t---many little twist