Re: Can a makefile identify itself?

[Noel Yap]

It depends upon what you mean by nice ;-)

Using GNU make 3.80 and above, you can define a function that does the include 
for you and also sets a make variable to be the file being included.  This 
variable may then be used by the included file.

Noel

lists wrote:
> I want an included makefile to be able to identify itself (or atleast 
> its directory).  Take the following example:
>
> /prog/Makefile
> /prog/apples/Makefile.mk
>
>
> The /prog/Makefile uses "include apples/Makefile.mk" to call another 
> makefile.  I need the apples/Makefile.mk to know where it is.  If I use 
> $(shell pwd) I get the location of the root Makefile instead.  I'm using 
> Make 3.79.1 (and am stuck with it) so I can't use the MAKEFILE_LIST 
> variable.
>
> Is there a nice way of doing this?
>
> -
> natch
>
>
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