On Aug 3, 2017 9:00 AM, "Benjamin Cama" <b.c...@kerlink.fr> wrote:
Anyway, it seems that a global variable would solve my problem, and indeed it looks a bit more right this way: I can still get the stem in my recipe (with $*), and everything works as expected. It's just that the global namespace is “polluted” by this variable which is used only in my particular recipe. And this is where I may be mistaken on the use of target-specific variable: I tend to use them as a kind of “private namespace” feature, when I define something that will be used only in one particular recipe. What we do in our makefiles is to use global variable names containing paths. E.g., subdir/FOO = bar You can modularize this via some construction like: M := subdir ... $M/FOO = bar Make doesn't provide a lot of structure for encapsulation (there are no objects or directly-addressable structures, for instance), but it does give you enough flexibility to create something manageable. Kyle
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