On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:23:12PM -0500, Tom Briggs wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Michael D. Pritchett wrote:
>
> > Might I suggest a shell test command such as we use when checking the need
> > to run ./configure?
> >
> > @if [ -r /path/to/predefines.mk]; then
> > include /path/to/predefines.mk
> > fi;
>
> I gave this a shot, but no dice. I think the underlying problem here
> is that we're not inside a target at this point; as far as I know you
> can't execute commands outside a target.
>
you should be able to do some fun things with backquotes (`).
like -include $(foo)
where foo = `if test -e predefines.mk; then echo "predefines.mk" fi
or somesuch.
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