Re: Static pattern and $$(@F)

[Yogesh Bhagwat]

--- "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:
> %% Yogesh Bhagwat <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   yb> Unfortunately it is not so. FILES_IN_DIR_A should really be
>   yb> FILES_IN_DIRS_A_TO_Z.
> 
>   yb> So this means I need to write static pattern rules for each
> of the
>   yb> dirs.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>   yb> But that may not be possible as the dirs themselves are
> coming
>   yb> out of a wildcard expression.
> 
> Then you have two choices.  The first is to use make's auto-re-exec
> feature to dynamically construct a makefile containing the proper
> rules,
> which you can include using make's "include" feature.  This is the
> traditional way to support non-static data in makefiles which can't
> be
> handled through make's normal implicit rule support.
> 

Ahh!! Yes, I get that! I will do this in short term. Thanks a 
lot. May be this should go into the faq :) 

> The second is to wait for a bit:
> 
>   yb> I am using 3.79.1 version of gnu make.
> 
>   >> The next version of GNU make (3.80) does support this strange
> SysV
>   >> construct--at least to some extent.
> 
> :)
> 
> There's a pretest of this release available now, if you want to try
> it
> (I'd actually like someone to test this capability in a "real life"
> situation before the official release).

Sure! I will be glad to test it out over this weekend. Please let 
me know where to get it from.

> 
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