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Re: A not so clear behaviour for Makefiles including other makefiles
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Noel Yap |
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Re: A not so clear behaviour for Makefiles including other makefiles |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:21:07 -0500 |
"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> Not currently. The re-exec code doesn't go through the normal "put
> exported make variables to the environment" processing that's done
> before a shell is invoked... and I think it's correct to work that way,
I completely agree.
> However, this is probably worth requesting as a new feature: some way to
> tell whether or not you've re-execed. I would assume it would be
> something like MAKELEVEL, except for counting re-execs. That way people
> could conditionalize on that where they wanted to. It has to be
> carefully done though to be sure the variable is set where it should be
> and _NOT_ set where it shouldn't be.
I was think along the same lines. Can this request be made via this list? Or,
should it be made through Savannah?
Thanks,
Noel
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