RE: Targets which dont check for includes...

[Shah Bijal]

This is pretty much what I need to do when I am working with dependency files 
as if make finds a rule to make them then it will do so then clean them up. The 
method you describe works (using MAKECMDGOALS) but you can end up putting an 
ever increasing number of targets into the "exceptions" target list depending 
on how your makefiles are structured.

However, there is potentially a better way, which I have been experimenting 
with and which seems to work very nicely - its documented on Paul's own page:
http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html

Incidently, that page contains a mine of information for makefile writers.

Regards,
Beej

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 28 May 2003 22:40
To: Jim Kogler
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Targets which dont check for includes...


%% Jim Kogler <address@hidden> writes:

  jk> Is there a way to check what target was specified? something like...

  jk> if target != scour
  jk> -include $$(1)_depfiles
  jk> endif

Look at the MAKECMDGOALS variable (see the GNU make manual).

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