Re: GNU Make: Is it illegal to include within targets?

[Måns Rullgård]

"nopa" <nopaperfound@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've a Makefile which I thought to be legal because it always worked
> fine in the past with non-GNU versions of Make.
>
> First I've a command file named "commands.incl", like this (for
> example):
>
> ---cut here---
>     cp here there
>     cd mydir ; make depend
> ---cut here---
>
> (where every line begins by one and just one TAB)
>
> And then I've a Makefile like this:
>
> all:
>     make alltools
>     make allstuff
> include commands.incl
>     make therestoftestuff
>
> alltools:
>     blah blah blah
>
> When trying this with GNU Make it complains "commands commence before
> first target. Stop.", and the error is reported at line 1 of
> "commands.incl". The docs say that it's because there's a line
> beginning with Tab, and outside of a target.
>
> It's true that the line 1 of "commands.incl" begins with a Tab, but
> it's _INSIDE_ of the "all:" target. And, as I said, it works with
> commercial versions of Make.

The include directive is not standardized at all.

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Måns Rullgård
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