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Making directories in GNU Make This article looks at a variety of ways to achieve directory creation in GNU Make and points out a common trap for the unwary. |
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Rebuilding When a File's Checksum Changes In this article, Ask Mr. Make shows a simple hack to GNU Make to cause it to do the right thing when the contents of a source file change. |
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Rebuilding When CPPFLAGS Changes GNU Make has no way of detecting that some targets ought to be rebuilt, because it doesn't take into account changing the commands. If, for example DEBUG=1 causes the flags passed to the compiler to change then the target ought to be rebuilt. This article shows how, in a few lines of GNU Make code, to make that happen. |
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Dynamic Breakpoints in the GNU Make Debugger The most recent change (taking GMD from v1.0.0 to v1.0.1) is the addition of dynamic target breakpoints. At the GMD prompt it's now possible to set and remove breakpoints on the name of a file (in GNU Make language a target) that the Makefile will build. |
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Setting a Makefile Variable From Outside the Makefile In this article, Ask Mr. Make talks about how to set Makefile variable from outside the Makefile. |
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Dumping Every Makefile Variable What if you want to print out every variable defined in a Makefile? In this tip I'm going to show you how and introduce GNU Make's powerful functions. |
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Printing the Value of a Makefile Variable There aren't any debuggers for Make, and Make doesn't provide the sort of interactivity you'd see from a scripting language like Perl or Python. So what is an easy way to figure out the value of a variable? This simple Makefile does all the work for you. |
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Makefile Debugging: Tracing Macro Values Ask Mr. Make talks about how to trace macro values when debuggin makefiles. |
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The Trouble with $(wildcard) $(wildcard) explained can be used anywhere in a Makefile or rule to get a list of files matching one or more glob style patterns. |
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