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Re: MAKEFLAGS and auto-including another makefile
From: |
Robert P. J. Day |
Subject: |
Re: MAKEFLAGS and auto-including another makefile |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:14:49 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Ken Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>
> ks> I think the script approach is cleaner than this. People get used
> ks> to magic environment stuff and forget about it. Then, when it
> ks> breaks, you may not know where to look. If you are invoking a
> ks> script which is named differently from gmake or make, then you
> ks> know that you are getting something special.
>
> I always use and recommend wrapper scripts for these kinds of builds
> myself.
>
> Not only can you manage things like the -I list, but you can do lots
> of other useful things which are difficult/impossible to do in make:
> you can clean out/canonicalize the user's environment so that values
> for LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. don't blow up the build (you can remove
> individual variables from within make easily enough, but from a
> shell script you can clean the ENTIRE environment). You can set to
> a new group, if necessary. And other useful stuff.
ok, this sounds reasonable. it confirms, for me, the most important
thing i was trying to do, and that was to remove absolute pathnames
from the makefile "include" directives.
rday