-include command and wildcards

[TAZ Vukovic, Mirko]

I am having fun with a makefile for latex files.  For a file foo.tex, the dependencies (figures, style files, etc) are stored in a file foo.tex-d, whose contents are of the form:

latexdeps= ... list of files ...

 

In my makefile I have

 

-insert foo.tex-d

 

to load the dependencies and then below

 

%.dvi: %.tex $(latexdeps)

            $(latex) ...

 

for compilation and finally, I also have

 

%.tex-d: %.log

            latexdeps ...

 

which will re-create the dependency file upon my explicit request.

 

So, currently my make file is generic as far as compilation goes, but I have to hard-code the file that has to be -include-d.  In the example above, I am including foo.tex-d, but all my other rules have wildcards.  If I want to compile a different file, I have to change the makefile -include commands to point to the new file.

 

Is there some way of doing the inclusion via wildcards?  Or shall I call make via a script that will assign a variable when calling make, and then use that variable in the -include command?

 

I'm new to make and compilation on unix. 

 

Thanks

 

Mirko Vukovic

Tokyo Electron Arizona

Gilbert Arizona