Re: switch or elseif statement in make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Martin d'Anjou" <address@hidden> writes:

  md> Most of my makefiles complexity would just vanish if there was a switch 
  md> statement or an elseif statement in make.

The latest CVS version of GNU make allows you to have syntax like:

    if...
        ...
    else if...
        ...
   [else if...
        ...]*
    else
        ...
    endif

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