On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rpjd> i'm perusing paul's paper on multi-arch builds at > > rpjd> http://make.paulandlesley.org/multi-arch.html > > rpjd> and am wondering if that technique would work on a multi-level > rpjd> source directory -- specifically, the linux 2.4 kernel. > > rpjd> i can see how that approach would work fine for a single-level > rpjd> directory containing the source. does it generalize nicely to > rpjd> an entire hierarchy? (theoretically, i don't see why not, but > rpjd> i'm still reading.) > > Yes, it works in that environment. > > These days I tend to shy away from fancier environments like this, > though. Now that GNU make has more advanced features like eval and > call, this type of setup is not as necessary anymore. You can > generate the necessary rules to have objects put into another > directory pretty easily, without having to write them all out, and > without the extra recursion.
is there, somewhere, a reasonably complete example of a makefile setup that does most or all of the above? sometimes, just seeing a real example answers a lot of questions. thanks. rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
