On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 13:58 +0100, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> How can you refer to the current target't basename and path in GNU Make?
>
> EmployeeTest.exe: EmployeeTest.o Employee.o
> $(LINK.cc) $^ -o $@
> DatabaseTest.exe: DatabaseTest.o Employee.o Database.o
> $(LINK.cc) $^ -o $@
>
> EmployeeTest and DatabaseTest are redundant here, how can you avoid
> that redundancy in specifying the rule?
You have these choices:
1. Use a pattern rule
2. Use a static pattern rule
3. Set .SECONDEXPANSION and use $$* (requires newer versions of
make)
You can find discussions of these in the GNU make manual. Personally I
would use a pattern rule; this is what they were designed for:
%.exe: %.o
$(LINK.cc) $^ -o $@
EmployeeTest.exe: Employee.o
DatabaseTest.exe: Employee.o Database.o
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