[Omake] Re: "filter" broken in new omake?

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 14.12.2006 01:23, David Kågedal wrote:

>> E.g.:
>>
>> %.o: %.c
>>  res = $(filter %.bla, ...)
>>  ...
>>
>> This will filter foo.bla rather than anything ending in ".bla" if "foo.o" is
>> the current target.
> 
> You can probably use $* instead. 

David, I think you misunderstood - he was trying to do the opposite - 
instead of passing "whatever matched the % in the target" (which is what 
he was getting already), he wanted to pass the _literal_ symbol "%" to 
the filter function, so the solution was the opposite to what you are 
proposing.

> Consider the following Makefile:
> 
> foo-%-bar:
>         echo $* > $@
> 
> Running "make foo-xxx-bar" will run the command
> 
> 	echo xxx > foo-xxx-bar
> 
> In omake, the $* variable expands to $@ with the suffix stripped, if I
> understood correctly. This is much less useful.
> 
Well, why is it less useful? Note that OMake provides you a way to get 
_both_. If you want what make gives you, just use %. If you want OMake's 
$*, you can get that too.

Things do become slightly tricky in presence of vmount, but we've fixed 
some of the issues related to that recently.

Aleksey