bugmake - Bugs: bug #10708, target names are canonicalized (./...

 
 

bug #10708: target names are canonicalized (./ removed, etc.)

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 17 Oct 2004 11:08:52 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Component Version:  3.80 Operating System:  Any
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Mon 02 Jan 2017 08:55:40 PM UTC, comment #2: 

See also bug #17230

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Tue 19 Oct 2004 08:46:20 PM UTC, comment #1: 


> So, do you think that if make finds the 'from' pattern doesn't match the 'text', it could check if 'from' begins with './', remove it, and try again?


Umm... no.  Ugh! :-).

However, I do agree that this should probably work better.  $@, etc. should probably always be the exact target name, without any of the internal translations performed.  I'll have to think about that more first though.

For the time being you can work around this by using something like:

 ./foo: ; @echo $(patsubst %,%bar,$(notdir $@))

(obviously I'm assuming that your real pattern substitution is more complex; if not you can just use:

 ./foo: ; @echo $(notdir $@)bar

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Sun 17 Oct 2004 11:08:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

Since make removes leading './'s from target names, it sometimes breaks subst. Example:

./foo:
@echo $(@:./%=%bar)

This will print 'foo' instead of the expected 'foobar'.

So, do you think that if make finds the 'from' pattern doesn't match the 'text', it could check if 'from' begins with './', remove it, and try again? Please and thank you!

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