I copied an example from the make manual and I don't see why it doesn't work. It never runs the canned recipe commands.
Thank you, Harvey $ cat Makefile # From http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Canned-Recipes # 5.8 Defining Canned Recipes define run-yacc = yacc $(firstword $^) mv y.tab.c $@ endef foo.c : foo.y @echo "Just before" $(run-yacc) foo.y: touch $@ .PHONY: clean clean: rm -f foo.y foo.c $ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program built for i386-apple-darwin10.0 $ make touch foo.y Just before $ $ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program built for i486-pc-linux-gnu $ make touch foo.y Just before $ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
