On Monday 30 July 2007 10:11, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Is setting VAR={true,false} the actual thing you want to accomplish or
> is that just for illustrative purposes? Because if you just want to
> perform conditional actions it seems to me that using the shell is the
> easiest way:
Just illustrative. I want to do more complicated things.
> some_rule: some_file
> if [ -f some_file ]; then \
> ... \
> else \
> ... \
> fi
Right.
> However with this you can't pass variable assignments up to make, since
> changes in a child's environment have no effect in the parent.
Right, and this is exactly one of the things I want to do. Is this even
possible?
-Dave
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