I am making a Makefile there i have made three files text11.o ,functext.o
and result.o.
Now i have written a make clean target to rm these files if these extst but
for better programming it should first check it that the file exists or not
i have written below mentioned code :

clean:
ifeq ($(findstring text11.o,$(wildcard %.o)), text11.o)
rm text11.o
else
echo "no file named text11"
endif
ifeq ($(findstring functext.o, $(wildcard %.o)), functext.o)
rm functext.o
else
echo "no file named functext"
endif
ifeq ($(findstring result.o,$(wildcard $(PWD)/%.o)), result.o)
rm result.o
else
echo "no file named result"


Now the problem is that interpreter is always giving the else part whether or not files are there.
what is the right code ?

'rm --help' will show you the options.
(I think that 'rm -f *.o' will do the job.)

I got the desired result by doing this ---------->



clean:
ifeq ($(findstring text11.o,$(wildcard *.o)), )
echo "no file named text11"
else
rm text11.o
endif
ifeq ($(findstring functext.o, $(wildcard *.o)), )
echo "no file named functext"
else
rm functext.o
endif
ifeq ($(findstring result.o, $(wildcard *.o)), )
echo "no file named result"
else
rm result.o
endif

#####################
But i am getting the result when rm filename is in else part but if i compare the $(findstring text11.o,$(wildcard *.o)) function with text11.o
like:
ifeq ($(findstring text11.o,$(wildcard *.o)), text11.o)
and put rm text11.o in true part not in else part.
it is always giving empty string if the file text11.o is present there or not or in other words it is always executing else part.
so what is the reason ?

You could Try Something Like :

clean:
@for f in a $(VAR) $(OBJ) file.o; do \
if [ -f $$f ]; then \
rm "$$f"; \
echo "rm $$f" ; \
fi; done

Hi Ashok_mittal, you may want to use the 'filter' function instead of 'findstring', otherwise use 'strip' over 'findstring'.

In your case the comparison of output from findstring with empty string is failing. A $(strip ) over your $(findstring ) may fix the problem as that would truncate the white spaces. I didn't try that as I could achieve my purpose using $(filter ) function.

I had a similar scenario where I had to check if file exists (inside the recipe) before executing actual command. I was doing that using shell commands. I tried your machanism and ran into the issues that you have mentioned. Then I used 'filter' instead of 'findstring' and that worked absolutely fine.