On 19 August 2011 00:56, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, narke <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 17 August 2011 01:54, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >>> I think what narke is saying is that he doesn't HAVE the full pathname. >>> He just has the name of the executable itself. He wants make to FIND >>> the fully-qualified pathname. >> >> Yes, exactly. By far warlich's solution should work, but it really >> slow. May there not exists a good solution and I'd better have the >> user to provide the path in an environment variable. > > Well, your request is still underspecified, so the response filled in > one possible answer. In this case: you want it to find the > fully-qualified path, but you didn't say whether you wanted it to do > that every time (what if it changes between runs!) or only do so the > first time in a build directory and then cache it after that. Or > maybe cache it as long as the cached path is still present? Some > other criteria for deciding to not do the work of searching the entire > filesystem? > > > Philip Guenther >
Only do that the first time in build directory is okay. If the path really changed (by installed a new version of the compiler), the user can manually rerun something to get the updated path. How to implement this? -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
