RE: makefile question

You could put it in variables but if you are seriously trying to make your
compile work better you might want to look into jam it's a better make
system and it builds source much faster and does dependencies much better.
The boost libraries use Jam because of that very fact.  

 

Ken

 

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 12:42 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: makefile question

 

awesome, thanks. so I just need to add a cd;make to the root for each of the
folders.

wonder if there's an easier way of doing that (like storing the list of dirs
in a variable) or something... I'll have to check in to it.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Ken Perry <mailto:whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:32 PM

Subject: RE: makefile question

 

 

 

You add the make file in the next level in the make file of the first level
as one of the commands to execut in the lower level.  I have a 3 level tree
in my current make file system and in the first level it looks something
like this :

 

all:          $(BINDIR)$(SERVER)

                cd scripts;make "MAKEFILE=${MAKEFILE}"

                cd utilities;make 

                cd key;make

cd compiler;make "MAKEFILE=${MAKEFILE}"

cd language;make "MAKEFILE=${MAKEFILE}"

                cd mplex;make "MAKEFILE=${MAKEFILE}"

cd Utility;make "MAKEFILE=${MAKEFILE}"

 

d 

 

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 2:26 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: makefile question

 

Hello list,

I've got a quick question.

I've got a set of programs, each in their own separate folder with makefiles
to match.

This works, but when I want to build the whole package I have to go from
directory to directory.

Is there a way perhaps, to make a makefile compile with other makefiles
under separate directories? I'd just like one main makefile that will run
the makefiles in sub directories, and pass in the argument.

So, if I'm at the root of the directory and I want to clean the package,
make clean would go to directories a,b,c,d,e and run make clean, etc.

TIA,

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