Re: GNU make puzzle

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Jan-2001, Chad Loder <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello. I would like to indent build messages according to
> the make level at which they occur. I am considering something
> along the following lines:
> 
> 
> #################### /generic.mk ##########################
> 
> INDENT_STRING:=<# of spaces equal to $(MAKELEVEL)>
> echo_msg:=echo "$(INDENT_STRING)"

How about just the following?

        empty = 
        INDENT_STRING := $(empty)$(INDENT_STRING) $(empty)
        export INDENT_STRING

At each recursive invocation, it will append one space
to INDENT_STRING.

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