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0 pointsjcranmer3y ago0 comments

And from the most recent minutes:

> Bug 805: Add Make conditionals Rejected

> https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=805

> As the behavior described in the desired action hasn't actually been implemented, to our knowledge, and there is insufficient consensus amongst the variants that have been implemented to pick one as the de facto standard this request is being rejected. Should the industry come to a consensus a new bug reflecting that should be filed.

TL;DR: no way forward for adding if/else statements to make for now.

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ainar-g3y ago

To be fair, if you need conditionals in target bodies, you're probably better off putting the body into a separate file as a shell script. And if you need conditionals in macros, there's the old macro-in-macro approach:

  DEBUG = 0
  DEBUG_FLAG_0 =
  DEBUG_FLAG_1 = --debug

  # …

  main.bin: 1.o 2.o # …
          build $(DEBUG_FLAG_$(DEBUG)) -o main.bin # …

I'm not saying that it's a good way, but it is a way.

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