Re: Flexible include (was: Re: adding functions to function.c

[Boris Kolpackov]

Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden> writes:

> Included makefile can have prerequisites that in turn need to be built
> That may also happen in non-bootstrap situations, e.g. if one generates
> dependencies in some complicated way that requires a specific order.
>
> Sometimes $(eval) can be used to include dependencies after they have
> been generated. Some other times it is either too hard or plainly
> unfeasible to do so and one has to resort to a recursive call. I think
> the latter is what Boris calls a "qualitative difference".
>
> Would it be a feasible and useful to have a delayed include? I mean
> to consider the include-file as a regular target but only include it
> after it has been either rebuilt or diagnosed up to date.

I don't see what exactly you are trying to achieve. Maybe you could
create a small example that shows your problem.