Re: More parallelism in makefile

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:57:00 -0600


Hi Andreas,

Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:

mec> Also I've had problems with dynamic % dependencies like this:
mec> $(addsuffix _modules,$(SUBDIRS)): %_modules: include/linux/version.h
mec> The dependency doesn't have a % substitution, so why not just this:
mec> $(addsuffix _modules,$(SUBDIRS)): include/linux/version.h

andreas> Because $* will be different.

Hmmm, ok. I would use ($@:%_modules=%) instead of $*. I can't point
to specific problem I had with the %_modules way but I just remember
having one.

Regards,

Michael Chastain
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