Yup. That did the trick. I was getting hung up on trying to remove the
need for the Makefile.a and Makefile.b instead of just making their use
transparent.
-Thanks,
-Mike
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Mike Cherba <mche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Bob. I was thinking about trying something similar but hadn't
> gotten around to it yet. I'll give that a shot.
> -Mike
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Bob Miller <k...@jogger-egg.com> wrote:
>
>> mytargeta:
>> $(MAKE) -f Makefile.a mytarget
>>
>> mytargetb:
>> $(MAKE) -f Makefile.b mytarget
>>
>> # ... rest of Makefile ...
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Mike Cherba <mche...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've got a make question I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>> >
>> > I have three Makefiles
>> >
>> > Makefile.a
>> > Makefile.b
>> > and Makefile
>> >
>> > Makefile contains all the real targets and the .a and .b files simply
>> export
>> > a couple of variables and include Makefile. I want to eliminate
>> Makefile.a
>> > and Makefile.b by performing those exports dynamically based on the
>> chosen
>> > target, so "make mytargeta" would replace "make -f Makefile.a mytarget"
>> and
>> > "make mytargetb" would replace "make -f Makefile.b mytarget"
>> > correspondingly. I can easily mimic this with a shell script sitting in
>> > front of the Makefile, but I'd like to do it using only make if
>> possible.
>> > I'm coming to the conclusion that there's no provision in make for this.
>> > The targets are inherited and fairly complex with multiple levels of
>> > inclusion, so just rewriting all the makefiles is out of the question.
>> Any
>> > suggestions? I may just have to create a "build.sh" which matches the
>> > target given as an argument and invokes make with the correct -f option.
>> > -Mike
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard Feynman
>> >
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