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Subj : Some makefile questions
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Matthias Reuss
Date : Wed Jun 15 2005 05:01 pm

Hello,

having to use Borland's make for a specific project, I stumbled upon some
questions:

1) Is it possible to use a directory as target or source?

e.g. something like

c:\mydir\foodir: c:\mydir
    mkdir c:\mydir\foodir

2) Is it possible to have make exit gracefully if some source does not
exist?
My project needs a special compiler which is only present on some computers
here; on those computers that do not have this compiler, make should only
issue a message but the driver script should not abort (it aborts when make
raises an error).
I have not found an "!exit" directive, and !error does raise an error.

3) Can macros be defined within a description block?
i.e. something like:

foo.obj : foo.cpp
    cl foo.cpp
MACRO = bar

This did not work, however I did not find this topic in the documentation.
What I wanted to do is save to a variable whether foo.obj had to be made or
had been up-to-date.

Best regards

Matthias

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