(make.info) MAKEFILE_LIST Variable

 
 The Variable `MAKEFILE_LIST'
 ============================
 
    As `make' reads various makefiles, including any obtained from the
 `MAKEFILES' variable, the command line, the default files, or from
 `include' directives, their names will be automatically appended to the
 `MAKEFILE_LIST' variable.  They are added right before `make' begins to
 parse them.
 
    This means that if the first thing a makefile does is examine the
 last word in this variable, it will be the name of the current makefile.
 Once the current makefile has used `include', however, the last word
 will be the just-included makefile.
 
    If a makefile named `Makefile' has this content:
 
      name1 := $(word $(words $(MAKEFILE_LIST)),$(MAKEFILE_LIST))
      
      include inc.mk
      
      name2 := $(word $(words $(MAKEFILE_LIST)),$(MAKEFILE_LIST))
      
      all:
              @echo name1 = $(name1)
              @echo name2 = $(name2)
 
 then you would expect to see this output:
 
      name1 = Makefile
      name2 = inc.mk
 
     Text Functions, for more information on the `word' and
 `words' functions used above.   The Two Flavors of Variables
 Flavors, for more information on simply-expanded (`:=') variable
 definitions.

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