Markus Elfring (19 June 2017 19:34): > The documentation contains the following information: > “… > It’s very important that you recognize the limited scope in which automatic > variable values are available: they only have values within the recipe. > …” > > How are the chances to adjust this software restriction? > > I would appreciate if parts from target names can also be occasionally reused > for prerequisite specifications. > Would it make sense to allow that another special syntax will denote > additional placeholders (similar to the handling of the percent character)?
Take a look at https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Static-Usage.html It may enable what you want already. Otherwise, give a specific example of what it is you can't do with the existing syntax. Eddy. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
