Re: Conditionals, step one

[Radly]

Paul Smith-20 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 05:56 -0700, Radly wrote:
>> OS = $OSTYPE
>> 
>> ifeq ($(value OS), darwin10.0)
>>   TXT = GOT_IT
>> else
>>   TXT = MISSED_IT
>> endif
>> 
>> all:
>>         @echo OS = $(value OS)
>>         @echo $(TXT)
> 
> Wow, what an interesting combination of incorrectnesses :-)
> 
> <...>
> However, assuming you're doing a lot of variable assignment I recommend
> a very different method.  Instead of big if-else-endif statements, just
> use include files with suffixes for each supported OSTYPE.  Something
> like:
> 
>       include $(firstword $(wildcard osinfo.$(OSTYPE)) osinfo.notype)
> 
>       all:
>               @echo OS = $(OSTYPE)
>               @echo $(TXT)
> 
> Now create a file for darwin10.0:
> 
>       $ cat osinfo.darwin10.0
>       TXT = GOT_IT
> 
> and another file for "unknown OSTYPE":
> 
>       $ cat osinfo.notype
>       TXT = MISSED_IT
> 
> 
Thanks also.  Usually when I'm wrong I'm wrong in a big way. :)  I like the
scalability of your suggestion, so I tried it.  Alas, like my reply to
Derek, this also requires "make OSTYPE=$OSTYPE".  I'm running bash v.
4.1.5(1).  Can that conceivably matter?


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