Target detection fails when the Makefile is using include directive

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Target detection fails when the Makefile is using include directive

rbarzic opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

This is mentioned in http://stackoverflow.com/a/26339924/983746 entry used to defined makefile-executor-list-target-code.
Unfortunately, the workaround described in the StackOverflow entry can't be applied without changing the code in makefile-executor.el

Ronan Barzic · Answer 1 · Fri Feb 18 2022 18:42:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Apparently, the suggestion from user artu-hnrq about using -f $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)) instead of -f $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)) may solve the issue

fxble · Answer 2 · Fri Jul 14 2023 21:41:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I ran into the same issue recently. I used include directives as well as recursive calls of make to call makefiles in subdirectories. But I only got a subset of my targets displayed when executing makefile-executor-execute-project-target, for example. As suggested by @rbarzic, I replaced lastword with firstword and now everything works as expected.