[geeks] non-recursive make

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>    project/
> 	Makefile
> 	util/
> 	    blah.c
> 	    blah.o
> 	net/
> 	    net.c
> 	    net.o
> 	bin/
> 	    final_binary

Just have your Makefile reflect that structure:

O_FILES=util/blah.o net/net.o

bin/final_binary: ${O_FILES}

util/blah.o: util/blah.c

net/net.o: net/net.c

If you're using GNU make, that should be sufficient.  For vendors' makes
and BSD make, you may need to flash out that last rule saying exactly
how you want things linked.

> ...rather than the traditional method:
> ...where the master Makefile calls the others recursively.

I wouldn't call that traditional so much as I'd call it FSF nonsense.
Multiple makefiles in a single project only makes sense if the project
contains other projects (ie: some of the directories are libraries that
make just as much sense distributed separately).

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