Your original approach, as stated in the question, is best. Each of your tests is in the form of a pair of expected inputs and outputs. Make is quite capable of iterating through these and running the tests; there is no need to use a shell for loop. In fact, by doing this you are … Read more
A make file can have any name. The -f option of make is used to specify which file to use: make -f foobar You can even use -f several times: make -f foo -f bar In which case make processes the files in order (or, equivalently, concatenates the files and processes the result). makefile and … Read more
Use sort and dir functions together with wildcard: DIRECTORY = $(sort $(dir $(wildcard ../Test/*/))) From GNU make manual: $(dir names…) Extracts the directory-part of each file name in names. The directory-part of the file name is everything up through (and including) the last slash in it. If the file name contains no slash, the directory … Read more
Your question is not about threads, but processes (jobs) executed by make. The simple, way to set this, when make is used from the console is adding: alias make=”/usr/bin/make -j 8″ to your .profile file. You can also use setenv MAKEFLAGS ‘-j 8’, but MAKEFLAGS can ignore this parameter in some scenarios, because keeping desired … Read more
You can strip off a leading a/ with $(FILE:a/%=%) See the text substitution function reference for more options & details.
Cmake is a “project generator”. It doesn’t actually build any object files etc.; what it does is generate the control files for other tools (such as GNU make) which will build object files, etc. The advantage of using cmake instead of writing the makefile directly is that, using the same cmake input file, cmake can … Read more
I found a solution using the eval function: $(eval variablename=whatever) This works 🙂 (although I may now try to find an easier build system ;)) Thanks everyone for reading and also of course @eriktous for writing!
Although Hasturkun’s solution will work, I think the idiomatic way to write this is: ifeq ($(TEST_FLAG),TRUE) ifeq ($(DEBUG_FLAG),FALSE) # Stuff endif endif
Use a target-specific variable There is one more special feature of target-specific variables: when you define a target-specific variable that variable value is also in effect for all prerequisites of this target, and all their prerequisites, etc. (unless those prerequisites override that variable with their own target-specific variable value). TEXENGINE=pdflatex pdflatex: echo the engine is … Read more
Things have apparently changed. I found the following: Checkmake Mint Of the two, Checkmake has (as of 2018/11) more recent development, but I haven’t tried either.