Re: Temporary variables in make .for loops
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:56:35 UTC
On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:41:51 +0300 Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello fellow porters. > > My variable modifiers are growing and become too incomprehensible, so > here is the question I wanted to ask long ago: > > How do I make and use a temporary variable in the .for loop? > > This is what I have in Mk/Uses/cabal.mk: > > . for package in ${_use_cabal} > _PKG_GROUP= ${package:C/[\.-]//g} > > MASTER_SITES+= https://hackage.haskell.org/package/:${package:C/[\.-]//g} > . endfor > > I'd like to write ${_PKG_GROUP} instead of repeating that regexp > incantation, but due to specifics of .for operation it doesn't work. > Using := with _PKG_GROUP also doesn't fix the problem. > > Now I need to add another regexp substitution to every expression > inside this loop and it'll become even less readable than before. > > Is there a clean solution to this problem? You could use a nested .for loop: . for package in ${_use_cabal} . for pkg_group pkg_norev rev in \ ${package:C/[.-]//g} ${packa...} ${packa...} You can drop the backslash by the way.