Curtis L. Olson writes: > >Bernie Bright writes: >> "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: >> > >> > Bernie, >> > >> > I don't believe make allows 'circular' dependencies like >that. I know >> > at least some versions do not. Would be awfully convenient, but I >> > don't think it is allowed. >> > >> > Curt. >> > >> On the other hand "FOO += bar" is an extension not available to all >> makes. We seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place! >> >> Bernie, now on his second cup of coffee. > >Right, makes me wonder if there is some facility within autoconf/make >that would allow us to do what we need but we just haven't discovered >it yet.
Isn't this what ':=' is for ? < Full disclosure -- I've never used it though > However isn't this discussion somewhat academic since the DEFS += construct is only used in the JSBSim files and that can easily be moved to the toplevel configure.in, where IMHO it really belongs, along with perhaps other DEFS to conditionaly configure the other FDM's just my 0.02$ Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel