%% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pb> I'm doing a lot of foreach ... eval to create a lot of rules from
pb> lists. Is there anyway I can count the number of rules that I
pb> create?
Not easily. You could change your eval to add a token to a variable
every time you create a rule:
__COUNT += a
then use $(words $(__COUNT)). In the next version of GNU make (3.82)
there will be a $(.TARGETS) special variable, similar to $(.VARIABLES)
for variables. This will let you count the number of targets total in
the makefile, which is not quite the same thing.
Also you can run "make -p" to print the entire make database; it should
be pretty straightforward to grep out the targets and use "wc -l" or
whatever to count them.
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