Conditional behavior within makefiles

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok.  Well if you run into a brick wall with DMD/DMC's make, you could 
always include gmake with the Tango distribution.

--bb