Re: How to print at the start of Makefile

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 01.04.2011 15:09, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> On 01.04.2011 14:42, Ajay Jain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to print a banner string whenever user does any operation
> > in my makefile. The banner echoes some information on the shell. Since
> > there are many many targets in the makefile, I do not know what the
> > user will run and therefore I cannot assign the banner target as one
> > of my rules' dependencies.
> >
> > Could you suggest something? What I want is :
> >
> > When I do:
> >
> > make x Or make y OR ....
> >
> > The Makefile always prints the following as the first operation:
> >
> > echo "logname, hostname, date, time etc etc"
> Use $(info TEXT) func. Like:
>
> uname_s := $(shell uname -s)
>
> $(info Hello to GNU Make build!)
> $(info You run at $(uname_s) OS)
>
> Note that $(info) function is in introduced in GNU Make version 3.79 or
> 3.80
> (if I am not wrong).
From 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/make/ChangeLog?root=make&view=markup

2005-02-27  Paul D. Smith  <address@hidden>
        * function.c (func_error): Create a new function $(info ...) that
        simply prints the message to stdout with no extras.

So this func missing in 3.80 (which I have in old Cygwin 1.5 ??):

2002-10-03  Paul D. Smith  <address@hidden>
        * Version 3.80 released.

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