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Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:32:59 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] % $stem & $target in mk
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Hi,

crazily I've been using mk to build a website (trying to mimic SSI but
pre-request)

and I've run into a "shortcoming" with mk

this is something like my mkfile :

-------------------snip---------------------------------------

PAGES =  public_html/index.html public_html/news.html

all:V: $PAGES

nuke:V:
    rm -f $PAGES tmp/*

public_html/index.html: `{cpp -M src/index.html }
    makepage src/`{basename $target}  > $target

public_html/news.html: `{cpp -M src/news.html }
    makepage src/`{basename $target}  > $target


---------------------snip-------------------------------------



Whereas what would make like *much* easier would be if I could do this :

public_html/%.html: `{cpp -M src/%.html }
    makepage src/$stem.html > $target


but mk doesn't expand the % in `{}

Any magic I missed before hacking & slashing /sys/src/cmd/mk  ?