On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:42 +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
> my idea was that they could configure the build process by
> exporting variables based on pattern rules like this:
>
> dir/dir/index.html: author = jim bob
>
> When trying to create a set of rules for the distributed makefiles I
> initially
> had the software changing into the output directory to doing something
> similar to this:
>
> %.html: $(src)/%.txt
> $(info example making html from txt)
>
> The idea being that this would match the following:
>
> dir/dir/index.html: $(src)/dir/dir/index.txt
Have you considered using VPATH? It looks to me (based on this example;
I didn't try to get the tarball) that you have a good fit for it here.
Try rewriting your rule like this:
VPATH := $(src)
%.html: %.txt
$(info example making $@ from $<)
and see if that works.
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