"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> No, I guess I wasn't clear: my comment meant you'd have to run make > twice; the first time with a target that build the included makefiles, Yep, I understood that. The creation of the makefiles, however, must be completely invisible to the user. So their first invocation of make *will* be the build invocation. I cannot force them to do the generation step. > I guess if you don't mind the performance impact of invoking a shell > script to rebuild every makefile every time you invoke the build, I would have to rebuild the generated makefiles every time anyway (no way to predict when they need to be updated). The only performance issue I really need to address is reducing the multiple echo commands into a single command that dumps them all out at once for that dir/session. I wish GNU/clearmake had a function to do it (like $(error) and $(warning)), which would save me the cost of using $(shell). And since there are ordinarily a large number of directories in our users' source trees, I'd rather incur the cost of a simple text-output command than another invocation of make. 8^) Thanks, Ernest _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
