Ken Mankoff wrote:
# So... why doesn't this work?
%.o: %.f
ifeq ($(findstring $@,$(OBJ)),)
@echo not found
else
@echo found
endif
Because the ifeq is processed when the Makefile is being parsed and not
when rules are run. In that case $@ is empty and hence this won't work.
You can't use ifeq to change the body of a rule at run time.
But you could use $(if) instead:
%.o: %.f
@echo $(if $(findstring $@,$(OBJ)),found,not found)
John.
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