Re: make questions

[Daniel Kabs]

SysTom wrote:
> 1) Is it possible to set a variable from the results of the execution
> of a program?  My makefile needs to run on both Linux and Win32 so I
> cannot have a dummy target that exports an environment variable.

What about the "shell" function?

LINUX_VERSION:=$(shell uname -a)


> 2) Is it possible to set a make option from a variable?  For example, I
> would like to be able to do something like:

I'd also like to see a solution to this. Maybe the makefile can call 
itself again with the appropriate parameters set in MAKEFLAGS 
beforehand. This should work at least for sub-makefiles.

Cheers
Daniel