From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Nov 12 14:03:43 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28202
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:03:43 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28191
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:03:40 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org)
Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55])
	by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18458;
	Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:03:17 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id OAA09722; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:03:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <19981112140306.A9591@thought.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:03:06 -0800
From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: joelh@gnu.org, kline@tao.thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bsd make to gnu make conversion, anyone??
References: <19981112122005.C7958@thought.org> <98Nov12.163233edt.37768-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i
In-Reply-To: <98Nov12.163233edt.37768-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:32:30PM -0500
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:32:30PM -0500, David Holland wrote:
>  > 
> Another thing you can do is
> 
> support.mk: Makefile
> 	echo $(LANGS) | awk '{ for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) print $$i;}' |\
> 	 awk '{ printf "%s.mv.cat $$(.CURDIR)/nls/%s/mv.msg\n", $$1, $$1}' |\
> 	 awk '{ printf "%s: %s\n\tgencat -new %s %s\n\n", \
> 		$$1, $$2, $$1, $$2}' > support.mk
> include support.mk
> 
> There are assorted possible variations on this...
> 


		Something like this crossed my mind; either in 
		each utility makefile or in a separate file.  
		Putting it in a ``bsd.support.mk'' would be 
		cleaner.  Good idea!


> 
> So yeah, here's how you do subdirectories in gmake, in case anyone's
> interested:
> 
> SUBDIRS=a b c d
> TARGETS=all install depend clean
> 
> 
> TMP1:=$(foreach dir, $(SUBDIRS), $(TARGETS))
> TMP2:=$(foreach dir, $(SUBDIRS), $(foreach tgt, $(TARGETS), $(dir)/))
> TMP3:=$(join $(TMP2), $(TMP1))
> TMP4:=$(patsubst %, %/%, $(SUBDIRS))
> 
> $(TARGETS): %: $(TMP4)
> 
> $(TMP3): %:
> 	@echo $(MAKE) -C $(patsubst %/, %, $(dir $@)) $(notdir $@)
> 
> 

		Now where have I seen this syntax before!

		gary


-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message