make(1) guru question

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> > Fellow hackers,
> > 
> > suppose you have a long list of files in a make variable V, exceeding
> > kern.argmax. This means there is no way you can write a rule where $(V)
> > is a command argument in any way shape or form. There is also no way to
> > pass the value of V to xargs that I know of. For example with this
> 
> depending on the use, you might use something like
> 
> 	make -V variable_name | xargs ...
> 
> within the makefile. I got the suggestion from someone long ago
> when I had this problem with src/sys/conf/Makefile.i386
> 
I can only confirm that this is the only known solution so far.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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