Conditional behavior within makefiles

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> There doesn't seem to be a tools newsgroup so I figured I'd just post 
>> this here.  Does the DigitalMars make tool support conditional 
>> behavior with ifeq and the like?  And more importantly, is there any 
>> equivalent for the GNU MAKECMDGOALS variable?  I'm trying to change 
>> makefile behavior based on the target specified and am not really sure 
>> how to proceed.
> 
> You probably know this much, but I'll say it anyway.  The free make tool 
> that comes with DMD/DMC doesn't support much of anything.  The version 
> that comes with the Extended Utilities Package or the DMC CD-ROM 
> supports more features.  I *think* the for-fee one has conditionals. And 
> I'm almost certain you're out of luck with the free one.
> 
> But there are many ports of gnumake to Win32, so why not just use that?

This is for the Tango makefiles, so I can't expect the user to have 
anything but the version of make.exe that comes with DMD/DMC.  I'm 
trying to sort out separate debug and release builds within the same 
makefile.


Sean