%% "William F. Dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
wfd> the quoting seems to work fine, but I had to protect the $(BINS), else
wfd> I get a shell syntax error when $(BINS) happens to be empty.
Yes, definitely.
wfd> I am not wild about the dependency on Makefile. Won't this give
wfd> me spurious re-execs of make?
Yes, but you don't have any choice.
You need to have the include file rebuilt whenever the contents of the
EXE_NAMES variable changes, otherwise it won't work. There's no other
way to do it than having it depend on the Makefile, except for putting
the setting of EXE_NAMES in some other file and including that; then you
can have the extradeps file depend on that EXE_NAMES setting file
instead.
Personally, I think that's much more annoying than the occasional
spurious rebuild of the deps file (which people will very likely hardly
even notice).
YM, of course, MV.
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