Re: [Resend] Function or variable to get the name of the current makefile.

[Paul D. Smith]

%% <address@hidden> writes:
 
  n> To the best of my knowledge, currently there's no way to determine
  n> the name of the makefile currently being read.

The makefile cannot obtain this information for itself, no.

  n> This information is useful to me, and I'd like to implement a
  n> 'thisfile' function that returns it.

No need.  There's already this capability (although not as a function
and not exactly how you suggest) in the next version of GNU make.

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