The define construct is already in the index.
I am missing an explanation there for the aspect when the construct define …
endef
should be used instead of the other variants for variable assignments.
define..endef allows you to assign multi-line values to a variable.
Regards,
Tim
On 6 January 2015 at 11:57, SF Markus Elfring elfr...@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
The define construct is already in the index.
I am missing an explanation there for the aspect when the construct
define …
Would it help a bit to mention this information explicitly
in the manual?
I'm not sure what you mean. If you look up define in the GNU make
manual index:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Name-Index_fn_letter-D
it will send you here:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org wrote:
On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 20:06 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
So you have in your toolbox $(shell) and $(eval).
I am not familiar enough with the second make function.
Hello,
I can generate a few file names with an approach
like the following.
MY_FILES::=
$(foreach index,$(shell seq 2 -1 0),$(eval MY_FILES+=X$(index).txt))
all: $(MY_FILES)
@echo '|$^|'
$(MY_FILES): ;
Now I am looking for a way to extract the number from
the shown prerequisite.
Can