Hello all.
I'm new to make and need some help. My make file creates a few files,
(shared libraries and executables), and I want to write a target that
copies said files into a separate directory. A pretty simple need. I
gather that I could manually declare rules like:
somedir/foobar: foobar
cp foobar somedir
somedir/dog: dog
cp dog somedir
copythefiles: somedir/foobar somedir/dog
But I don't like repeating myself. What I'd really like is to have a
rule pattern like:
somedir/%: $*
cp $* somedir
copythefiles: somedir/foobar somedir/dog
This doesn't seem to work. If I invoke "make copythefiles" I also
expect it to take appropriate actions to build foobar and dog but this
does not seem to be happening.
Am I going about this wrongly? Help is much appreciated.
- Adam
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