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:-, or ->, or :-(...) :)
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Akim Demaille |
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:-, or ->, or :-(...) :) |
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Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:30:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
There is a feature that I regularly miss in Make: the ability to say
"includes". That would dramatically help describing dependencies in
many different situations.
For instance, I wish I could say
main.texi -> sub1.texi sub2.texi
and then be able to have Make understand that
main.dvi: sub1.texi sub2.texi
main.info: sub1.texi sub2.texi
main.html: sub1.texi sub2.texi
etc. I.e., whereever main.texi is a dep, sub1.texi and sub2.texi are
too.
In the present case Automake already provides some support, but
actually this support could be factored into something like ->, which
means "includes".
I thought about -> as a pun wrt <- from Haskell which is, with a bit
of imagination a fuzzy look as a clashing - into < gives a \in.
But something starting with ":" is more in the spirit of make. Too
bad ":=" already has a meaning.
So, how about planning something like this in Automake?
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