Re: question about Circular dependency

[John Graham-Cumming]

PATTON, BILLY (SBCSI) wrote:
> gmake: Circular ldb <- ldb dependency dropped.
> Here is the makefile
> __BEGIN__
> proj := lde ldg ldm ldf ldw lbf ldb
>
> .PHONY : all ${proj}
>
> define dummy_template
>  $(1): ; @echo $(1)
> endef
>
> all : ${proj}
>
> $(foreach var,$(proj),$(eval $(call dummy_template,$(var))))
>
> $(filter ldb,${proj}) : ldb
> __END__
>
> I was under the impression that the filter would remove ldb from 
> the proj list and not have the circular dependencies.

You need to use filter-out instead of filter.

John.
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