Re: new target for contrib/Makefile

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>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/^.*-//'`
>
>

Cute. And wonderfully cryptic. I'm sure I've lost brain cells already
just trying to understand it ;-)


cheers

andrew