Closed Bug 792685 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Add a way to have automagically inherited variable definitions in Makefiles

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(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

defect
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normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla18

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(Reporter: glandium, Assigned: glandium)

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The usecase is for bug 755724, where we can just define DIST_SUBDIR=browser in browser/defs.mk, and DIST_SUBDIR=metro in browser/metro/defs.mk.
Comment on attachment 662843 [details] [diff] [review] Add a way to have automagically inherited variable definitions in Makefiles Review of attachment 662843 [details] [diff] [review]: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ::: config/config.mk @@ +27,5 @@ > include $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk > endif > > +nullstr := > +space :=$(nullstr) # EOL You can ostensibly just use $(NULL) here right? @@ +39,5 @@ > +__depth := $(subst /, ,$(DEPTH)) > +ifeq (.,$(__depth)) > +__depth := > +endif > +$(foreach __d,$(__depth) .,$(eval __depth = $(wordlist 2,$(words $(__depth)),$(__depth))$(eval -include $(subst $(space),/,$(strip $(srcdir) $(__depth) defs.mk))))) This hurts my head, but ok.
Attachment #662843 - Flags: review?(ted.mielczarek) → review+
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Flags: in-testsuite-
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla18
Blocks: 810709
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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