Re: bjam rationale...

From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-16 09:46:37

On 12/16/2004 03:23 AM, Tompa wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost <at> cs.msu.su> writes:
[snip]
>>I think that make does not even allow to create a user-defined function, and 
>>so it completely non-suitable to the task.
> 
> 
> Oups... I am far from being a make expert, but I do know that GNU make supports
> user-defined functions (as well as built-in functions)!

This user-defined function can be any shell script. An example
is:

include $(shell echo default.imk|tee -a Makefile.d)

which includes default.imk into the Makefile and records
it's inclusion in Makefile.d. 'echo default.imk' can be replaced
by a user defined shell script.