Markus Elfring (20 June 2017 11:43)
> I got another software development concern for such an use case.
>
> * Can it eventually happen that dependencies will not be resolved if
> target names do not contain the percent character?
I can't remember, but a simple experiment should answer that !
> * Should the determination of prefixes and suffixes just work here?
Not sure what you mean there, but all the usual automatic variables work
as ever.
> * Can another link help in the section “How patterns match” of the
> documentation?
Be specific: to which page (give its URL) do you consider adding a link,
to where, using which part of the page's text as anchor.
>> Otherwise, give a specific example of what it is you can't do with
>> the existing syntax.
> I am also interested in data processing for several fields from
> targets (and not only a single “%” as the usual placeholder). Will it
> make sense to capture any more data into corresponding variables?
There's little point going beyond basic substitution unless we go for
full regex-based matching and replacement,
OBJ = $(SRC:s!(.*)/srcroot/(.*)\.c!$1/buildroot/$2.o!)
or similar, and I doubt make shall aim for that any time soon.
Eddy.
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