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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: bsd make to gnu make conversion, anyone??
In-Reply-To: <98Nov11.234727edt.37814-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from David Holland at "Nov 11, 98 11:47:27 pm"
To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:41:58 -0800 (PST)
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According to David Holland:
>  >    Are there any makefile senior Wizards out there who can clue me
>  >    in on the translation of this pmake 
> 
> gmake doesn't have an equivalent for .for, so you're stuck with making
> a mess.
> 

		As long as it works and makes some sense,
		that's what counts.


>  > 
>  > LANGS=  en_US.ISO_8859-1 fr_FR.ISO_8859-1 de_DE.ISO_8859-1
>  > FILES=  ${LANGS:S/$/.mv.cat/}
>  > CLEANFILES+=    ${FILES}
>  > 
>  > .
>  > .
>  > .
>  > 
>  > for lang in ${LANGS}
>  > ${lang}.mv.cat: ${.CURDIR}/nls/${lang}/mv.msg
>  >         gencat -new ${.TARGET} ${.ALLSRC}
>  > .endfor
> 
> This you can probably do with
> 
> %.mv.cat: ${.CURDIR}/nls/%/mv.msg
> 	gencat -new $@ $^
> 
> (for some suitable replacement for ${.CURDIR})
> 
>  > beforeinstall:
>  > .for lang in ${LANGS}
>  >         ${INSTALL} ${COPY} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${NOBINMODE} \
>  >                 ${lang}.mv.cat ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${lang}/mv.cat
>  > .endfor
> 
> try
> 
> ${patsubst %, install-%, ${LANGS}}: install-%:
> 	${INSTALL} -c -o root -m 644 ${patsubst install-%, %.mv.cat, $@} \
> 		${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${patsubst install-%, %, $@}/mv.cat
> 
> beforeinstall: ${patsubst %, install-%, ${LANGS}}
> 
> 
> but that might not work and in any event it's pretty gross.

		
		It's slightly worse than gross!  

> 
> You might be better off compiling bsd make on whatever box you're
> using. 
> 

		Can't.  We're doing the entire BSD built using
		gmake.  ....

		Is there a cleaner way using /bin/sh commands 
		within gmake?  Something like

		for $${lang} in $${LANGS}
		do
			....
		done

		thanks for your input, 

		gary







> 


-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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