Re: Breaking up a text file to make a Makefile

[Anonymous Monk]

... Any ideas how I should approach this?

Avoid it :)? something something makepp?

I really don't understand the problem ... you have some kind of makefile ... you want to add to some kind of Makefile ... I don't makefile often but that seems kind of like a thing some kind of makefile tools should be able to do already

Anyway, here are examples perlfaq6.../perlrequick/Regexp::Common/Re^6: POD style regex for inline HTML elements,Regexp::Grammars/Re^2: Parsing a config file with braces and nested braces/Re: Parsing a config file with braces and nested braces, Marpa::R2/Re: Parsing a config file with braces and nested braces

[Anonymous Monk]

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use v5.10.0;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd /;
my $blah = qq{anything \\\nblah\nanything \\\nblah};
dd( $blah );
print "$blah\n\n";

#~ use re 'debug';
my $reblah = qr{

(?<multiline>
    (?: ^ [^\r\n]* \\ [\r\n]* )+  ## multiline MANY times
    (?: ^ [^\r\n]* [\r\n]+ )      ## but always ENDS with oneline
)
|
(?<oneline>  ^ [^\r\n]* [\r\n]+ )
}smx;

while( $blah =~ m{$reblah}g ){
    dd( { %+  } );
}

__END__
"anything \\\nblah\nanything \\\nblah"
anything \
blah
anything \
blah

{ multiline => "anything \\\nblah\n" }
{ oneline => "anything \\\n" }

[flybd5]

I have a "makefile" for a completely different build tool that comes with a 15-yr-old product, no compatibility to gmake. and I've devised a way to easily convert it to a gmake-compatible makefile. This is not something makefile tools do. I'm just not proficient enough in Perl to do it intelligently. I could use brute force, but I want to learn how to do things elegantly in Perl.