Re: Target-specific variable in subdirectory problem

[Benjamin Cama]

Le jeudi 03 août 2017 à 15:06 +0000, Edward Welbourne a écrit :
> Benjamin Cama (3 August 2017 17:00)
> > 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?
> 
> No: thing/target-suffix and thing//target-suffix are different names.
> They may be functionally equivalent, but make just sees different
> strings, one with a doubled-slash, the other with just one slash.

Well, the thing is that passing target names to make with any number of
slashes normalize it to one, so I tended to think that the definition
followed the same normalization. Thanks for the explanation, then.

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