1 1.5 rillig # $NetBSD: hanoi-include.mk,v 1.5 2023/10/19 18:24:33 rillig Exp $ 2 1.1 rillig # 3 1.3 rillig # Implements the Towers of Hanoi puzzle, demonstrating a bunch of more or less 4 1.3 rillig # useful programming techniques: 5 1.1 rillig # 6 1.3 rillig # * default assignment using the ?= assignment operator 7 1.3 rillig # * including the same file recursively (rather unusual) 8 1.3 rillig # * extracting the current value of a variable using the .for loop 9 1.3 rillig # * using the :: dependency operator for adding commands to a target 10 1.3 rillig # * on-the-fly variable assignment expressions using the ::= modifier 11 1.1 rillig # 12 1.1 rillig # usage: 13 1.3 rillig # env N=3 make -r -f hanoi-include.mk 14 1.3 rillig # 15 1.5 rillig # Specifying N in the command line instead of in the environment would produce 16 1.5 rillig # an endless loop, since variables from the command line cannot be overridden 17 1.5 rillig # by global variables: 18 1.3 rillig # make -r -f hanoi-include.mk N=3 19 1.1 rillig 20 1.1 rillig N?= 5 # Move this number of disks ... 21 1.1 rillig FROM?= A # ... from this stack ... 22 1.1 rillig VIA?= B # ... via this stack ... 23 1.1 rillig TO?= C # ... to this stack. 24 1.1 rillig 25 1.4 rillig # Since make has no built-in arithmetic functions, convert N to a list of 26 1.4 rillig # words and use the built-in word counting instead. 27 1.4 rillig .if ${N:[#]} == 1 28 1.4 rillig N:= count ${:U:${:Urange=$N}} # 'count' + one word for every disk 29 1.4 rillig .endif 30 1.4 rillig 31 1.4 rillig .if ${N:[#]} == 2 32 1.1 rillig . for from to in ${FROM} ${TO} 33 1.1 rillig all:: 34 1.1 rillig @echo "Move the upper disk from stack ${from} to stack ${to}." 35 1.1 rillig . endfor 36 1.1 rillig .else 37 1.4 rillig _:= ${N::=${N:[1..-2]}} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${TO}} ${TO::=${TMP}} 38 1.1 rillig . include "${.PARSEDIR}/${.PARSEFILE}" 39 1.4 rillig _:= ${N::+=D} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${TO}} ${TO::=${TMP}} 40 1.1 rillig 41 1.1 rillig . for from to in ${FROM} ${TO} 42 1.1 rillig all:: 43 1.1 rillig @echo "Move the upper disk from stack ${from} to stack ${to}." 44 1.1 rillig . endfor 45 1.1 rillig 46 1.4 rillig _:= ${N::=${N:[1..-2]}} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${FROM}} ${FROM::=${TMP}} 47 1.1 rillig . include "${.PARSEDIR}/${.PARSEFILE}" 48 1.4 rillig _:= ${N::+=D} ${TMP::=${VIA}} ${VIA::=${FROM}} ${FROM::=${TMP}} 49 1.1 rillig .endif 50