I have sourced a function 'xmsubdirs' into my current shell and was
expecting it to be available from a makefile rule but it is not.
The Gnu make manual doesn't seem to address this issue; it simply addresses
the use of shell environmental variables.
Functions are exported to subshells in bash; why isn't make able to access
them?
--- Makefile:
.PHONY: foo goo boo moo
boo :
@xmsubdirs
# i tried treating xmsubdirs like a variable
moo :
@$(xmsubdirs)
foo :
@echo $(shell $(xmsubdirs))
goo :
@echo $$(xmsubdirs)
--- output
[greg@p3 test]$ xmsubdirs
foo.html.xm goo junkme moo.xm project
[greg@p3 test]$ make boo
make: xmsubdirs: Command not found
make: *** [boo] Error 127
[greg@p3 test]$ make moo
make: Nothing to be done for `moo'.
[greg@p3 test]$ make foo
[greg@p3 test]$ make goo
/bin/sh: xmsubdirs: command not found
--- function source
function xmsubdirs(){
[ -z "$1" ] && set .
XMLMAKE_BUILD_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE='(^CVS$)|(^trash$)'
if [[ ! -z "$XMLMAKE_BUILD_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE" ]]
then
export CURRENT_SUBDIRS=$(find "$1" -name '*' -type d -maxdepth 1|
xargs --replace=d basename d | grep -v -E $XMLMAKE_BUILD_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE)
else
export CURRENT_SUBDIRS=$(find "$1" -name '*' -type d -maxdepth 1|
xargs --replace=d basename d )
fi
echo ${CURRENT_SUBDIRS}
}
Thanks,
Greg Keraunen
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