Hello, Software development projects can grow in the way that corresponding components will be stored in several subdirectories. Such a project organisation has got consequences on the management of some dependencies.
Now I am looking for advanced support possibilities by the make software once more. Components in these subdirectories will usually need some information also from the global build system settings. A portion of the involved configuration variables will eventually store relative paths. I imagine that desired data processing for them can trigger special development challenges then. How do you prefer to achieve consistent and safe access for paths across the directory hierarchy? I looked at the possibility to convert such data into absolute paths (by the function “abspath” for example). But make variables do not directly support higher level data structures for the transformation of passed build parameters in the way I would find convenient. How portable can extensions become for the provided function library? Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
