Re: adding functions to function.c

[John Graham-Cumming]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:22, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> I was thinking about this too but realized that it often creates a chicken
> and egg problem: to get the function you need to build DSO, to build DSO
> you need the function. Here is a concrete example: I needed $(lastword)
> to include bootstrap file from a relative path:
> 
> include $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))../build/bootstrap.make

Of course, you could define lastword like this:

lastword = $(word $(words $1),$1)

and then $(call) it:

include $(dir $(call lastword,$(MAKEFILE_LIST)))../build/bootstrap.make

John.
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