Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:16:30 -0500 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible bug with 'make readmes' Message-ID: <39FED43E.DA69EC0C@thehousleys.net> References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0010280859310.1326-100000@blues.jpj.net> <39FA428A.19C0EAF3@ipass.net> <Pine.BSI.4.21.0010280859310.1326-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20001028104607.A10335@greycat.com> <4.3.2.20001031050743.00bab9c0@207.227.119.2> <20001031054441.A94263@greycat.com>
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Dann Lunsford wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:54:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> > At 10:46 AM 10/28/00 -0700, Dann Lunsford wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > >XXTMPDIR += x11-wm
> > >
> > >.for dir in ${XXTMPDIR}
> > >.if exists(${dir})
> > >SUBDIR += ${dir}
> > >.endif
> > >.endfor
> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Rather than change all those lines, even with sed as your friend, why not
> > just use:
> >
> > .for dir in ${SUBDIR}
> > .if exists(${dir})
> > SUBDIR_EXISTS += ${dir}
> > .endif
> > .endfor
> > SUBDIR = ${SUBDIR_EXISTS}
> >
> You're right, that is better. Now, where did I put that excuse
> file? Oh yeah, here's one: "Not enough coffee that day." :-)
> Thanks.
>
Might it be better to use ".if exists(${dir}/Makefile)" because I think
it will still fail if the directory exists but is missing the files.
Jim
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