Re: Running case commands with the shell function?

[Mark Piffer]

Am Do., 21. Sep. 2017 um 09:36 Uhr schrieb Sébastien Hinderer <
address@hidden>:

> Thanks a lot, Rakesh, will take this other remark into account.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sébastien.
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Sorry for dropping in so late - had a lot to do lately.
If you want, you can use the GNUmake table toolkit at
https://github.com/markpiffer/gmtt which is now
implementing more than only tables. Your code can be glob-matched this way
(I hope you get the idea):

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include gmtt/gmtt.mk

# lags := \
#   $(shell \
#     case "$(TARGET)" in \
#       i386-*-openbsd5.[5-9]*|i386-*-openbsd[6-9].*) \
#         echo "-ccopt -nopie";; \
#       *);; \
#     esac \
#   )


$(info $(call
glob-match,i386-whatever-openbsd5.7.8-experimental,i386-*-openbsd5.[5-9]*))
$(info $(call
glob-match,i386-whatever-openbsd5.4.8-experimental,i386-*-openbsd5.[5-9]*))

TARGET := i386-whatever-openbsd5.7.8-experimental
$(info $(TARGET): $(if $(or $(call
glob-match,$(TARGET),i386-*-openbsd5.[5-9]*),\
                            $(call
glob-match,$(TARGET),i386-*-openbsd[6-9].*)),   -ccopt -nopie, nothing!))

TARGET := i386-whatever-openbsd5.4.8-experimental
$(info $(TARGET): $(if $(or $(call
glob-match,$(TARGET),i386-*-openbsd5.[5-9]*),\
                            $(call
glob-match,$(TARGET),i386-*-openbsd[6-9].*)),   -ccopt -nopie, nothing!))
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glob-match doesn't support '|' in the expression yet - I will be grateful
if someone can point me to
a glob syntax which is generally accepted and standard, maybe the missing
operators could be
implemented in finite time.

best regards,
Mark