Re: settings.mk : subst construct

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:31:15PM +0200, Mat M wrote:
> Le Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:51:26 +0200, Norbert Thiebaud
> <nthiebaud@gmail.com> a écrit:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mat M <matm@gmx.fr> wrote:
> > > Is the construct legal or is there an issue here ?
> > > If it is legal, I'd love to have an explanation, because I had no great
> > > success when googling.
> >
> > http://www.openoffice.org/tools/dmake/dmake_4.3.html
>
> Oh,  I assumed it was GNU make stuff.
>
> > $(subst,pat,replacement data)
> >    Will search for pat in data and will replace any occurrence of pat
> > with the replacement string. The expansion
> >
> >        $(subst,.o,.c $(OBJECTS))
> >
> >    is equivalent to:
> >
> >        $(OBJECTS:s/.o/.c/)
>
> Syntax is different from gmake, so...
>
> Thank you Norbert
>
> So, now I took back the code from settings.mk around line 554
> COMMON_OUTDIR:=$(OUTPATH)
>
> LOCAL_OUT:=$(OUT)
> LOCAL_OUT_FOR_BUILD:=$(OUT_FOR_BUILD)
> LOCAL_COMMON_OUT:=$(subst,$(OUTPATH),$(COMMON_OUTDIR) $(OUT))
> .EXPORT : LOCAL_OUT LOCAL_COMMON_OUT
>
> here LOCAL_COMMON_OUT:=$(OUT) is enough or am I missing another thing ?

No, you are right. But I would not spend any time looking for possible
improvements in solenv/inc . The old build system based on dmake is
scheduled to die.

D.