Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:41:58 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd make to gnu make conversion, anyone?? Message-ID: <199811120641.WAA04442@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <98Nov11.234727edt.37814-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from David Holland at "Nov 11, 98 11:47:27 pm"
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According to David Holland:
> > Are there any makefile senior Wizards out there who can clue me
> > in on the translation of this pmake
>
> gmake doesn't have an equivalent for .for, so you're stuck with making
> a mess.
>
As long as it works and makes some sense,
that's what counts.
> >
> > LANGS= en_US.ISO_8859-1 fr_FR.ISO_8859-1 de_DE.ISO_8859-1
> > FILES= ${LANGS:S/$/.mv.cat/}
> > CLEANFILES+= ${FILES}
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > for lang in ${LANGS}
> > ${lang}.mv.cat: ${.CURDIR}/nls/${lang}/mv.msg
> > gencat -new ${.TARGET} ${.ALLSRC}
> > .endfor
>
> This you can probably do with
>
> %.mv.cat: ${.CURDIR}/nls/%/mv.msg
> gencat -new $@ $^
>
> (for some suitable replacement for ${.CURDIR})
>
> > beforeinstall:
> > .for lang in ${LANGS}
> > ${INSTALL} ${COPY} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${NOBINMODE} \
> > ${lang}.mv.cat ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${lang}/mv.cat
> > .endfor
>
> try
>
> ${patsubst %, install-%, ${LANGS}}: install-%:
> ${INSTALL} -c -o root -m 644 ${patsubst install-%, %.mv.cat, $@} \
> ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${patsubst install-%, %, $@}/mv.cat
>
> beforeinstall: ${patsubst %, install-%, ${LANGS}}
>
>
> but that might not work and in any event it's pretty gross.
It's slightly worse than gross!
>
> You might be better off compiling bsd make on whatever box you're
> using.
>
Can't. We're doing the entire BSD built using
gmake. ....
Is there a cleaner way using /bin/sh commands
within gmake? Something like
for $${lang} in $${LANGS}
do
....
done
thanks for your input,
gary
>
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