[aclug-L] Re: master makefile

[Jeff Schaller <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Carl D Cravens wrote:

> In my case, I have a bunch of directories that hold HTML
> template files.  Each page.html has a directory named page,
> and each directory has its own Makefile.
> 
> all: index.html about.html fred.html
> 
> %.html: 
>    cd $(basename $@) && $(MAKE)
> 
> I'm no make expert.  I haven't figured out how to (or if you
> can) make it do rules like %.html without a suffix... (that
> is, give it a list of directory names).

Sounds like a shell script with a loop to me :)

#!/bin/bash
for dir in $*
do
        (cd $dir; make)
done!

-jeff
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