A simple make will build the first target in the list, which is put-files. make all will build the target all. If you want all to be the default, then move it to the top of the list. To understand what the .PHONY does, see http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/make/Phony-Targets.html
Rather than a phony target (which as @cmotley points out, is working exactly as it should) what you might use when you want to avoid extra work is an “empty target”: The empty target is a variant of the phony target; it is used to hold recipes for an action that you request explicitly from … Read more
Use make -d or make –debug[=flags] options: ‘-d’ Print debugging information in addition to normal processing. The debugging information says which files are being considered for remaking, which file-times are being compared and with what results, which files actually need to be remade, which implicit rules are considered and which are applied—everything interesting about how … Read more
In fact all is explained in the doc: Finds whitespace-separated words in TEXT … means that one or more spaces have to separate the words. … that match PATTERN … means that it select only words that match a pattern (which can include some spaces). … and replaces them with REPLACEMENT. means that the selected … Read more
After re-reading the documentation on static pattern rules, I derived the following pattern rule which seems to work. $(OBJ_DEBUG): $(OBJDIR_DEBUG)/%.o: %.cpp $(CXX) $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) $(INC_DEBUG) -c $< -o $@ I’m not sure this is the best approach, and I’m open to suggestions.
If you are running make from the command line, use make CPPFLAGS=-DFOO which will add -DFOO to all compilations. See also CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS in the make manual.
According to autoconf manual (about AC_PROG_CC): If using the GNU C compiler, set shell variable GCC to ‘yes’. If output variable CFLAGS was not already set, set it to -g -O2 for the GNU C compiler (-O2 on systems where GCC does not accept -g), or -g for other compilers. If your package does not … Read more
Incredibly, somehow everyone else missed the canonical way to do this, which has been around since 2 years before this thread began. 🙂 I wondered the same thing as the OP and was disappointed by the lack of proper (non-ugly) ways to do this when I read this thread. A few days later, while idly … Read more
If you export the variable to the shell and reference it as a shell variable, rather than a make variable, you will have better luck: define VAR1 /dev d 755 – – – – – endef define VAR2 /test d 777 – – – – – /test2 d 777 – – – – – endef … Read more
You can use the $(subst) command, combined with a little trick to get a variable that has a value of a single space: p = /usr /usr/share /lib noop= space = $(noop) $(noop) all: @echo $(subst $(space),:,$(p))