Hello all,
I am French and using GNU make (with GNU guile) version GNU Make 4.4.1 on a
Debian Testing (or Ubuntu) computer with x86-64.
Is there a simple way to get the current line number (in a similar way of
__LINE__ in C++ code) in a GNUmakefile?
Maybe adding a $(__LINE__) and $(__FILE__) GNUmakefile functions?
In other words, adding a GNU make feature so that the following GNUmakefile
example:
.PHONY: tell-lines
tell-lines:
printf "tell-lines at %s:%d\n" $(__LINE__) $(__FILE__)
when invoked as make tell-lines is outputing
tell-lines at GNUmakefile:4
I could even try to implement it if adding that feature is simple (less than a
day of coding on Linux) if given some concrete guidance.....
Respectful regards
NB: this is useful in the RefPerSys free software project - it has an ugly
GNUmakefile (and I don't want to use generators like cmake)
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