Re: Makefiles parser?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Gutson Daniel-ADG035 <address@hidden> writes:

  gd> is there any Yacc or similar grammar for Makefiles? I saw a couple
  gd> of Makefile.y in google, but couldn't find where they were.  Or,
  gd> is the grammar described somewhere? (in bnf or similar).

Not really.  The problem is that makefile syntax is highly
context-dependent: for example, wildly different syntactical rules hold
inside a rule's command script than do during variable assignment.

For this reason most instances of make I'm aware of have hand-rolled
parsers rather than utilizing yacc, or even lex.

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