On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm working on a small library that uses a very simple makefile (no > autoconf, etc.) and it sets the library name and soname within the > makefile. > > Instead of hard coding it in the spec file I would like to extract the > library name and soname from the makefile. > > I tried "grep soname Makefile | awk..." type approach which works for > the soname but the library name is generated from the soname with a > variable and I haven't found a way to get an "evaluated" version of > the makefile. How about make -n some-target, where some-target emits on stdout what you need? -- Garry Williams -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel