On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
ESAm Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 20:10 CEST schrieb David Kirchner:
ES On 8/25/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ES Dear make gurus (bsd make, not gmake),
ES
ES it seems that make checks .if directives only at statrup. How can I
ES trigger
Am Montag, 5. September 2005 18:03 CEST schrieb Harti Brandt:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
[...]
You should think of .if and .for as preprocessor directives. They are
processed when make reads the makefile and builds the dependency graph.
If you need something more dynamic you
Dear make gurus (bsd make, not gmake),
it seems that make checks .if directives only at statrup. How can I trigger
a reread?
I have the problem that in one target I create a filetree, another target
checks if it exists, if not it creates itself again. Now it works
perfectly when I call the two
Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 20:10 CEST schrieb David Kirchner:
On 8/25/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear make gurus (bsd make, not gmake),
it seems that make checks .if directives only at statrup. How can I
trigger a reread?
I have the problem that in one target I
On 2005-08-25 20:36, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 20:10 CEST schrieb David Kirchner:
This Makefile shows the problem:
all:
.if ! exists(./foobar)
@echo foobar does not exist
.endif
touch foobar
.if ! exists(./foobar)
Yes. The thing to keep in mind is that much of the .if stuff is done
at parsing or rule construction time. So if you change something
(creating a file, say), then that condition won't be re-evaluated.
For the specific example given, one could replace much of the goo
with:
target: foobar
