Default recipe assigned to recipe within include directive

[mmstick]

Problem

!include /usr/share/justfiles/cosmic-app.just

default: build-release

As above, I'd like to be able to !include common recipes for packaging applications. However, due to how the default recipe is defined by a FIFO basis, and where I'm finding that there isn't a good way to define a default recipe if any of the includes contain recipes. The end user gets unhelpful error messages about internally-defined recipes requiring arguments. Or you must preemptively define an include with a default recipe.

Possible solutions

One of these would solve the issue

• Allow defining recipes before include directives
• Ignore recipes from include directives when choosing a default recipe
• Opt out of FIFO-based selection with a default recipe attribute
• Opt out of FIFO-based selection with a recipe named default
• Opt out of FIFO-based selection with a default-recipe variable

[casey]

We just merged #1618, which allows !include to be used anywhere in a justfile, so you can now do:

default: build-release

!include foo.just

[mmstick]

Thanks!

[casey]

You bet! Keep in mind that although the example I gave works, the actual behavior is quite odd, to say the least. See #1736 for details.