Re: MUST GNUstep Makefiles be called GNUmakefile?

[David Ayers]

Björn Giesler wrote:

> On 2003-10-07 10:16:15 +0200 David Ayers <d.ayers@inode.at> wrote:
>  
>
> > Any non-option parameter passed to make will be interpreted as a target.  If 
> > you want to supply a file name to the a custom Makefile, you should be able 
> > to use the -f option:
> >
> > make -f MyMakefile  (see: man/info make)
> >    
>
> That is exactly what I'm doing, and what causes the error.
Sorry, I misunderstood.

> It seems that the GNUstep makefiles specify 'GNUmakefile' as a separate project 
> dependency, which is very sensible, because when the makefile changes, the 
> entire project must probably be re-made. It just shouldn't be a specific name 
> but (if that's possible) the name of the makefile currently used by 'make'. I 
> haven't found any possibility to do that from the make documentation yet, 
> however.
>  
OK, I think I got ya. So what you want is a variable that -make would 
use a dependency instead of GNUmakefile.  OK, have you tried playing 
with MAKEFILE_NAME= ? (see common.make)

I'm not sure how you would retrieve the "current" makefile name though....

Cheers,
David