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Re: multiple targets


From: Tim Murphy
Subject: Re: multiple targets
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:24:34 +0000

Emake supports this and you can get it in the huddle product which is in a
free beta at the moment.  It is gnu make compatible.

I do have an interest in this but I thought I might mention that such a
feature has been implemented already and is used.

Regards,

Tim
On 19 Jan 2016 2:11 p.m., "Phillip Lord" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> While writing a make file, I've just hit the situation where I need to
> write a rule of the form:
>
>
> a b c d e: x y z
>     generate_abcde
>
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as the semantics are equivalent to the
> rules where the targets are separate -- that is generate_abcde gets run
> multiple times.
>
> I've done some poking around, and found that a couple of solutions,
> either with pattern rules or otherwise by creating an intermediate file,
> as described here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2007-04/msg00021.html
>
> My understanding is that there is no other way to do this, but I was
> wondering why this was the case; would it be possible to support to make
> for this directly?
>
> Phil
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