On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:56:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote:
# Hello all. Is there a way to know programatically whether a GNU
# makefile defines some target ?
...
# Is there a simple, supported way of knowing from outside make
# whether a target is defined ? It would have to run on all Unixen
# plus Cygwin, for versions of GNU make >= 3.79.
POSIX make supports the -n (dryrun) option. Simply do
#!/bin/sh
if make -n target >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo target is defined
else
echo target is not defined
fi
This should be as portable and lightweight as it gets. I don't know
Cygwin, however.
Regards,
Jens
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