Makefile – Check if a file exists using wildcard function

轉載自 http://www.humbug.in/2012/makefile-check-if-a-file-exists-using-wildcard-function/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1077676/how-to-conditional-set-up-a-makefile-variable-by-testing-if-a-file-exists

 

The following snippet of code can be used to check for the existence of a file from within a Makefile.

ifneq ("$(wildcard $(PATH_TO_FILE))","")
FILE_EXISTS = 1
else
FILE_EXISTS = 0
endif

Quoting from make documentation.

$(wildcard  pattern )
The argument  pattern is a file name pattern, typically containing
wildcard characters (as in shell file name patterns). The result of
wildcard is a space-separated list of the names of existing files
that match the pattern.

In this present case, we are not using any wildcards, but the absolute path to the file.

 

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If file1 does not exist then $(wildcard file1) will evaluate to an empty string.

ifeq ($(wildcard file1),) 
    CLEAN_SRC =
else 
    CLEAN_SRC = *.h file3
endif