Re: Getting a list of all source files in a tree

[Angel Tsankov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Smith" <address@hidden>
To: "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden>
Cc: "make-help mailing list" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: Getting a list of all source files in a tree


> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:54:46PM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> > Is it possible to get a list of all cpp files in a folder 
> > (including
> > subfolders) using wildcard functions only?
>
> Using wildcard alone, this can only be done using Paul's suggestion.
> However, you could define a function and recurse on it.  It is much 
> more
> efficient than $(shell)ing to find.  It violates your original
> constraint by strip, eval, addsuffix, if, and call ;)
>
> find = \
> $(strip \
>  $(eval these-files := $(wildcard $(addsuffix /*,$(strip $(1))))) \
>  $(these-files) \
>  $(if $(strip $(these-files)),$(call find,$(these-files))) \
> )
>
> This gets you everything.  You can $(filter %.cpp,$(call find,dir)) 
> to
> make this more specific or define another function which does that 
> for
> you or modify the find function to deal with file suffixes or ...
>
>  Ken

I think this is exactly what I need, Ken. Thanks a lot!

Angel Tsankov
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