Re: Conditionally run "-include" in a rule?

[Matt England]

At 3/11/2006 11:13 AM, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I don't think there's an answer to your original question, but you can
> _certainly_ make your tests cleaner than this:
>
> [...]
> NINCLUDE_TARGETS := clean distclean cleanall cleanandfiles cleantmpdfiles \
>                     cleanendtgts printvar printvar2 cleanpkg
>
> ifneq (,$(filter $(NINCLUDE_TARGETS),$(MAKECMDGOALS)))
>   -include $(ALL_DFILES)
> endif

Yes, very good point, thanks.  (And also thanks to Dave Hylands for making 
the same suggestion in a private email.)  I'll be changing my core Makefile 
appropriately.

-Matt