Re: trying to emulate "include"

[Mike Gibson]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:22 am, Noel Yap wrote:
> I'm trying to emulate "include" with the following:
>
> aoeu.mk:
>       touch $@

This rule won't be executed until the makefile is completely parsed.

> -include aoeu.mk
>
> ifeq ($(wildcard aoeu.mk),)
>   $(error aoeu.mk: No such file or directory)
> endif

This part gets executed as the makefile is being parsed.

So the rule never has a chance to fire since the ifeq gets parsed first.

>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> but it's the error gets emitted all the time.  Is there a way to do what I
> want?
>
> I'm starting to think I'm going to need the "re-exec count" feature in
> order to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> Noel