Yes of course I am aware of and use all these methods. But, as Larry Wall of Perl says "all good programmers are lazy".
I am not sure if I am good, but certainly I am lazy. So I would rather just make a global change of $^ into some other $... or some other construct, which would get me the current rule prerequisites, and that would fix all the problems at once. With the methods you are describing, it is a labourious process. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Guenther [mailto:guent...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:36 PM To: Mark Galeck (CW) Cc: help-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: is there any way to get at prerequisites of "current" rule $^ is the complete list of prereq's for the target. If the recipe wants to process a subset of those, it should either a) use $(filter) or $(filter-out) to select the ones it wants, or b) put the subset that it wants to process into a variable and then _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
