bugmake - Bugs: bug #23928, Add MAKEFILE variable

 
 

bug #23928: Add MAKEFILE variable

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 24 Jul 2008 01:35:46 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  Not A Bug Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  3.81 Operating System:  None
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
* Mandatory Fields

Add a New Comment Rich Markup
   

Sun 29 Jan 2012 06:21:45 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I believe this is already possible with $(MAKEFILE_LIST) if it's used in the right place, although it's not always perfect.  Please add comments with use-cases which are very difficult or not possible.

Remember that there are a LOT of possibilities; for example how do you handle the case where the user runs "make -f F1 -f F2 -f F3"?  Etc.  Any request for such an enhancement needs to carefully describe what the expected behavior would be in all these situations.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Sat 26 Jul 2008 06:44:18 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Icarus Sparry wrote:

> You probably want lastword, rather than firstword.


Nope.  To quote the original request:

> It is often useful to recursively call the current makefile
> as part of a rule. Sometimes rules are included from a
> different file. The included file may not know the name of
> the make file used to start the make process.


The request was for the name of "the make file used to start the make process", which would be $(firstword ${MAKEFILE_LIST}).

(The use of the phrase "current makefile" is slightly ambiguous, but I think the last sentence makes it clear that it is meant to refer to the makefile that started the whole deal.)


BTW, $(lastword ${MAKEFILE_LIST}) is not always the makefile being parsed at that moment, particularly when there's an 'include' directive earlier in the makefile.  There's in fact no 100% general and reliable way to get the name of the file that's being parsed.


Philip Guenther

Anonymous
Fri 25 Jul 2008 08:58:49 PM UTC, comment #2: 

You probably want lastword, rather than firstword.

Icarus Sparry <icarus>
Thu 24 Jul 2008 03:26:19 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Simply add this to rules.mk and you're done:

MAKEFILE = $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))

Martin Dorey <mdorey>
Thu 24 Jul 2008 01:35:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

It is often useful to recursively call the current makefile as
part of a rule.  Sometimes rules are included from a different file.  The included file may not know the name of the make file used to start the make process.  Having a MAKEFILE variable would solve this.

File rules.mk:
---------------
foo:
       make -f $(MAKEFILE) bar

bar:
       echo hello
----------------

File GNUmakefile:
-----------------
include rules.mk

File Test.mk:
-----------------
include rules.mk

Anonymous

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach Files:
   
   
Comment:
   

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by psmith (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by icarus (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by mdorey (Posted a comment)
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

    Only logged-in users can vote.

     

    Follow 2 latest changes.

    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2012-01-29 psmith StatusNone Not A Bug
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-758e.
    Corresponding source code