user input

[Gustavo A. Baratto]

greetings,

 

I couldn't find a good way of working with user input in the Makefiles:

 

What I want is to check if the variable was defined in the command line, if not print a msg in the screen asking for a value, read stdin for the value, and assign it to a variable. I did something like this:

 

I tried this

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CREATE = ${shell echo 'read input; echo $$input' > input.sh}
CHMOD = ${shell chmod 700 input.sh}
$(warning  enter value 1:)
VALUE1 = ${shell ./input.sh}
$(warning  enter value 2:)
VALUE2 = ${shell ./input.sh}

 

test:

        echo ${VALUE1}       

        echo ${VALUE2}

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the result is:

#make test

Makefile:3: enter value 1:

Makefile:5: enter value 2:

<PROMPT>

<PROMPT>

 

as you can see make prints all the warnings before giving me the prompts... I have no more ideas on how to get out of this. can someone help?

 

thanks :)

 

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