# $NetBSD: hanoi-include.mk,v 1.3 2022/05/08 07:27:50 rillig Exp $ # # Implements the Towers of Hanoi puzzle, demonstrating a bunch of more or less # useful programming techniques: # # * default assignment using the ?= assignment operator # * including the same file recursively (rather unusual) # * extracting the current value of a variable using the .for loop # * using shell commands for calculations since make is a text processor # * using the :: dependency operator for adding commands to a target # * on-the-fly variable assignment expressions using the ::= modifier # # usage: # env N=3 make -r -f hanoi-include.mk # # endless loop, since command line variables cannot be overridden: # make -r -f hanoi-include.mk N=3 N?= 5 # Move this number of disks ... FROM?= A # ... from this stack ... VIA?= B # ... via this stack ... TO?= C # ... to this stack. .if $N == 1 . for from to in ${FROM} ${TO} all:: @echo "Move the upper disk from stack ${from} to stack ${to}." . endfor .else _:= ${N::!=expr $N - 1} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${TO}} ${TO::=${TMP}} . include "${.PARSEDIR}/${.PARSEFILE}" _:= ${N::!=expr $N + 1} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${TO}} ${TO::=${TMP}} . for from to in ${FROM} ${TO} all:: @echo "Move the upper disk from stack ${from} to stack ${to}." . endfor _:= ${N::!=expr $N - 1} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${FROM}} ${FROM::=${TMP}} . include "${.PARSEDIR}/${.PARSEFILE}" _:= ${N::!=expr $N + 1} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${FROM}} ${FROM::=${TMP}} .endif