Re: new target for contrib/Makefile

Tom Lane wrote:
> I found the following closely-related suggestion in the Make manual.
> It's not quite there because it doesn't seem to provide a way to pass
> down the current action (all/clean/install/etc) to the sub-Make.
> Any ideas how we could do that?

I've seen the following idea somewhere:

SUBDIRS = ...

.PHONY: $(addsuffix -foo, $(SUBDIRS)):

$(addsuffix -foo, $(SUBDIRS)):
    $(MAKE) -C `echo $@ | sed 's/-.*$//'` `echo $@ | sed 's/^.*-//'`

Repeat for all "foo" targets that you need.  The sed expressions may
need refining.

Then again, the original proposal doesn't sound so bad either.

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Peter Eisentraut
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