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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Building programs from separate makefiles Post 302760667 by Corona688 on Thursday 24th of January 2013 11:37:32 AM
Old 01-24-2013
I have no idea why you have done what you have, now. Why bother rewriting it if you're going to do exactly what you said you were trying to avoid? You've got exactly what you had before, except instead of nicely organized into folders, it's one enormous mess.

You might as well have just let them live in their own folders and used their old makefiles. Then you could do this:

Code:
all:projectfolder1/projectoutputfile projectfolder2/projectoutputfile ...

projectfolder1/projectoutputfile:projectfolder1/Makefile
        make -C projectfolder1

projectfolder2/projectoutputfile:projectfolder2/Makefile
        make -C projectfolder2

Then you could do 'make all' and it would run make in each of the folders.
 

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XMKMF(1)						      General Commands Manual							  XMKMF(1)

NAME
xmkmf - create a Makefile from an Imakefile SYNOPSIS
xmkmf [ -a ] [ topdir [ curdir ] ] DESCRIPTION
The xmkmf command is the normal way to create a Makefile from an Imakefile shipped with third-party software. When invoked with no arguments in a directory containing an Imakefile, the imake program is run with arguments appropriate for your system (configured into xmkmf when X was built) and generates a Makefile. When invoked with the -a option, xmkmf builds the Makefile in the current directory, and then automatically executes ``make Makefiles'' (in case there are subdirectories), ``make includes'', and ``make depend'' for you. This is the normal way to configure software that is out- side the X Consortium build tree. If working inside the X Consortium build tree (unlikely unless you are an X developer, and even then this option is never really used), the topdir argument should be specified as the relative pathname from the current directory to the top of the build tree. Optionally, curdir may be specified as a relative pathname from the top of the build tree to the current directory. It is necessary to supply curdir if the current directory has subdirectories, or the Makefile will not be able to build the subdirectories. If a topdir is given, xmkmf assumes nothing is installed on your system and looks for files in the build tree instead of using the installed versions. SEE ALSO
imake(1) X Version 11 Release 6.6 XMKMF(1)
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