[aclug-L] Re: master makefile

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With GNU make you can do something like the following:

install-all:
        do stuff
        ${MAKE} -C foo install-all
        ${MAKE} -C bar install-all

This assumes that you have a directory "foo" and a directory "bar". Each
of them have a Makefile in them that has a target "install-all".

When you type "make install-all", this make file will do what ever is
in the "do stuff" section, it will then call the makefiles in foo and
bar and do whatever is in the install-all target of those.


On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:03:00PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a master makefile for a project I'm working on. I have
> multiple projects in multiple directories, and each has its own makefile.
> I'd like to set up another makefile in the parent directory which will make
> whichever projects are specified at the command line.
> 
> A single rule in this makefile would essentially be the same as if I
> changed into the corresponding directory, ran make on that makefile, and
> changed back out of that directory. However, it needs to be able to handle
> some or all of the makefiles at a time, depending on what is specified when
> it is run.
> 
> Maybe I'm making this harder than it needs to be, but everything I've done
> in the past was in the same directory, and used only one makefile.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 
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