On 08/11/2012 07:36 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: > This is a different thing but I'd have had great use for a way to tell if a > target had been defined previously. Had to use variables to do it which > used a lot of memory and it was a total waste because make has the > information already. > I dimly remember that there had been talks about a $(.TARGETS) special variable in the past, but for some reasons that had been problematic to implement correctly, and the idea was (at least temporarily) dropped.
> Perhaps the ability to detect if a target is defined and another to remove > it would offer a complete api. > But note that I'm just proposing to remove the *recipe* associated with a target, not the target itself (nor the list of dependencies for it). Not that I oppose such an enhancement, but is distinct from what I need for my use case (and might be more tricky to implement). Regards, Stefano _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
