I was wide open to ideas on ways people deal with not wanting to hardcode a list of source filenames in the Makefiles. I thought this was common enough that perhaps there was a builtin make function to help out (I did look through the manual and didn't see anything, but I could have easily missed it).
Michael --- On Sat, 9/26/09, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Getting list of source files from directory hierarchy > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 6:58 PM > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 18:42 -0700, > Michael Morrell wrote: > > I have some Makefiles that want to get a list of all > source files in > > a directory hierarchy and currently use: > > > > SRCS := $(shell find . -name '*.c') > > OBJS := $(SRCS:.c=.o) > > > > The problem with this is that the output from find > isn't deterministic, > > which means the objects files can get linked into the > final executable in > > an arbitrary order and I want the result to be > identical from run to run > > from the same source. > > > > My current fix for this is: > > > > SRCS := $(shell find . -name '*.c' | sort) > > > > but I was wondering if anyone could suggest a better > method. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "better"; what would be > better? > > Anyway, I can't think of any other way to do it (you could > use GNU > make's $(sort ...) function if you wanted but I don't think > there's much > point... and it's probably less efficient than using the > shell's sort in > this situation). > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> > Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org > http://make.mad-scientist.net > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a > professional." --Mad Scientist > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
