Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 06:26:37 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hoek@hwcn.org, dev.random@dev.random.nu, baum@abirnet.co.il, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk is broken Message-ID: <19980124062637.10332@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199801212230.OAA00877@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 02:30:21PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980121075710.27690A-100000@james.hwcn.org> <199801212230.OAA00877@baloon.mimi.com>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 02:30:21PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> By the way, does anyone know how to do a check for a file existence
> (".if exists(foofile)") with a wildcard in make? Or do I need to list
> all the possibilties (libtcl.so.75.0, libtcl.so.7.5, libtcl75.so.1.0,
> etc.)?
TMPVAR!=echo libtcl*
.for HACKVAR in ${TMPVAR}
.if exists(${HACKVAR}
... do your stuff ...
.endif
.endif
I'm not certain it is an improvement, but it should work - I seem to
remember having done it myself at one time or another.
Eivind.
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