Re: say how to change PATH

2004-05-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dj> In Info, one cannot find how to change PATH in a Makefile. dj> PATH=/usr/sbin:$(PATH) won't do without spelling out PATH. dj> The best one can do is once on each line: dj> P=PATH=/usr/sbin:$$PATH dj> a: dj> $P; which faubackup ??? You

say how to change PATH

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
In Info, one cannot find how to change PATH in a Makefile. PATH=/usr/sbin:$(PATH) won't do without spelling out PATH. The best one can do is once on each line: P=PATH=/usr/sbin:$$PATH a: $P; which faubackup ___ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

need access to Makefile path

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Yost
Consider a Makefile that starts thus: include ../../../Makefile-master It would be nice if this included Makefile-master knew where it was, so it could do stuff like this: root := $(MAKEFILE-PARENT-DIR) classesDir := $(root)/classes I use this unsatisfactory workaround: Makef

Re: [RFC] .NOT_DEFAULT: target

2004-05-17 Thread Noel Yap
Boris Kolpackov wrote: Alternatively, if you have a makefile which is always included at the top (say your bootstrap.make file) you can put the "all" target in that file as the first thing: Now you are forcing user to use the same name for default target which is not always acceptable (well, at lea

Re: [RFC] .NOT_DEFAULT: target

2004-05-17 Thread Boris Kolpackov
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way I typically solve this is that I always define the target I want > to be the default first, with no prerequisites etc. Simply putting > something like: > > all: > > by itself at the top of the first makefile is enough to force make to > c

Re: [RFC] .NOT_DEFAULT: target

2004-05-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bk> I came to the point where I cannot work around "default target bk> hijacking" problem. So I am planning to do something about it in bk> my -bk patch-set. I also hope this feature will end up in the main bk> stream thus this RFC. bk> Whe

[RFC] .NOT_DEFAULT: target

2004-05-17 Thread Boris Kolpackov
Good day, I came to the point where I cannot work around "default target hijacking" problem. So I am planning to do something about it in my -bk patch-set. I also hope this feature will end up in the main stream thus this RFC. When makefile inclusion is used there is a recurring problem of defau