In (at least) Ubuntu when using bash, it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path. My terminal says you need to install ‘texinfo’ package. sudo apt-get install texinfo
Under Bash (at least), this can be done automatically with tab completion: make spacetabtab
make is a GNU command so the only way you can get it on Windows is installing a Windows version like the one provided by GNUWin32. Anyway, there are several options for getting that: The most simple choice is using Chocolatey. First you need to install this package manager. Once installed you simlpy need to … Read more
You can install GNU make with chocolatey, a well-maintained package manager, which will add make to the global path and runs on all CLIs (powershell, git bash, cmd, etc…) saving you a ton of time in both maintenance and initial setup to get make running. Install the chocolatey package manager for Windows compatible to Windows … Read more
Maybe you have a file/directory named test in the directory. If this directory exists, and has no dependencies that are more recent, then this target is not rebuild. To force rebuild on these kind of not-file-related targets, you should make them phony as follows: .PHONY: all test clean Note that you can declare all of … Read more
As indicated in the online manual, the most common cause for that error is that lines are indented with spaces when make expects tab characters. Correct target: \tcmd where \t is TAB (U+0009) Wrong target: ….cmd where each . represents a SPACE (U+0020).
Use the Make shell builtin like in MY_VAR=$(shell echo whatever) me@Zack:~$make MY_VAR IS whatever me@Zack:~$ cat Makefile MY_VAR := $(shell echo whatever) all: @echo MY_VAR IS $(MY_VAR)
You can print out variables as the makefile is read (assuming GNU make as you have tagged this question appropriately) using this method (with a variable named “var”): $(info $$var is [${var}]) You can add this construct to any recipe to see what make will pass to the shell: .PHONY: all all: ; $(info $$var … Read more
Since this is for Unix, the executables don’t have any extensions. One thing to note is that root-config is a utility which provides the right compilation and linking flags; and the right libraries for building applications against root. That’s just a detail related to the original audience for this document. Make Me Baby or You … Read more
To invoke a dry run: make -n This will show what make is attempting to do.