From: Charles Sharp (charles.sharp at domain sun.com)
Date: Fri 22 Jun 2001 - 16:18:10 IST
Hi Kevin,
If I understand the manual correctly, the answer is yes.
Get a big <fill in caffeine delivery vehicle>, take
a deep breath and see:
http://www.fsf.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_chapter/make_3.html#SEC15
and
http://www.fsf.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_chapter/make_3.html#SEC17
good luck,
cas
kevin lyda wrote:
>
> let's say you have a Makefile and it has the line
>
> include buildtools/ports.mk
>
> instead of dying if that's missing, i'd like it to do this command:
>
> cvs co buildtools/ports.mk
>
> is this possible? can anyone suggest a strategy for simulating this?
> one idea i had was to move the Makefile to Makefile.real and then have
> a buildtools/ports.mk dependancy on all targets. but then i have to
> edit two files to add a target and it just seems messy.
>
> kevin
>
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