Hi Gregory, On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Gregory Szorc <[email protected]> wrote: > > You should also keep in mind that make is not a static language that can be > parsed and turned into static rules. Variables and targets change as make is > executing. That means any kind of parsing must preserve variable references > as opposed to expanding them at parse time. > > You can use pymake to parse the general structure of make files (rules, > variable assignment, functions, etc). But actually evaluating all the "$" is > very hard.
Thank you for the heads-up! I do have respect for Make's evaluation trickery, though I'm probably still underestimating it :-/ But pymake does this correctly already, right? Or is there not a way to inspect the evaluated results? > If you read my old blog posts (http://gregoryszorc.com/) I go into some > details of this. Search for "pymake." I have some code on GitHub that > attempted to add a parsing-friendly "data" API to pymake [1] [2]. I can't > remember what all I did, but I know there is an attempt at a better parsing > API there somewhere. Excellent, thanks! - Kim _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
