| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: new target for contrib/Makefile |
| Date: | 2004-09-29 23:11:21 |
| Message-ID: | 415B4119.2080004@dunslane.net |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>I found the following closely-related suggestion in the Make manual.
>>It's not quite there because it doesn't seem to provide a way to pass
>>down the current action (all/clean/install/etc) to the sub-Make.
>>Any ideas how we could do that?
>>
>>
>
>I've seen the following idea somewhere:
>
>SUBDIRS = ...
>
>.PHONY: $(addsuffix -foo, $(SUBDIRS)):
>
>$(addsuffix -foo, $(SUBDIRS)):
> $(MAKE) -C `echo $@ | sed 's/-.*$//'` `echo $@ | sed 's/^.*-//'`
>
>
Cute. And wonderfully cryptic. I'm sure I've lost brain cells already
just trying to understand it ;-)
cheers
andrew
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