Re: Target-specific variable in subdirectory problem

[Benjamin Cama]

Le jeudi 03 août 2017 à 14:59 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit :
> To further enhance my understanding of the “right” usage of Makefiles,
> would you advise me to explicitly specify the subdirectory in the
> target
> definition? Because I feel that counting on pattern rules to match in
> subdirectory is kind of hackish, now. Like:
> 
>         $(SUBDIR)/target-%:
>           …
> 
> And in my particular case, I actually know the $(SUBDIR), but would it
> be right then to call make with:
> 
>         make SUBDIR=foo foo/target-1234
> 
> ? It looks redundant to me.

Well, I tried:

        SUBDIR = $(dir $@)
        $(SUBDIR)/target-%:
          …

But it doesn't work. But without a slash (which is already present at
the end of $(SUBDIR)), it actually works!:

        SUBDIR = $(dir $@)
        $(SUBDIR)target-%:
          …

Is this a bug?

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Benjamin Cama - Tél : 258