URL:
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Summary: Add long-form aliases for automatic variables
Project: make
Submitted by: gwymor
Submitted on: Wed 23 Jun 2021 03:53:55 AM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: None
Operating System: None
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
BSD Make has several long-form aliases for automatic variables, such as
`${.TARGET}` for `$@`. These are helpful for readability.
GNU Make and BSD Make both have automatic variables for all prerequisites, but
they differ (`$^` in GNU, `$>` or `${.ALLSRC}` in BSD), which makes writing
portable makefiles tricky. Adding `${.ALLSRC}` as an alias for `$^` makes
portability easier.
Introduce these automatic variable aliases for easier readability and
portability:
.IMPSRC = $<
.PREFIX = $*
.TARGET = $@
.MEMBER = $%
.ALLSRC = $^ # $> in BSD Make
.OODATE = $?
Pass --directory=src when applying patch with git.
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Date: Wed 23 Jun 2021 03:53:55 AM UTC Name: bmake-automatic-vars.patch Size:
2KiB By: gwymor
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=51593>
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