[geeks] UNIX development and makefile discussion

[Mouse]

> I'm writing some UNIX code that consists of a dozen or so source
> files for the first time.  I am ok with setting up makefiles for
> small projects of a few files in one directory but things are
> starting to get out of hand.  [...subdirectories...common code...]

> How do you organize projects that consist of multiple main programs
> and various functional pieces, some shared, some dedicated to a
> specific main program?

Personally, there are two major tacks I might take for this.

One is to put everything in a single directory, with the Makefile set
up to build different programs from their main files and their common
bits.

The other is to build a library separately, then use it with the main
programs.

Which I'd pick depends on things like how useful I expect the common
pieces to be to other programs, how well I can decouple them from the
non-common pieces, how likely it seems that changes to one will be
accompanied by changes to the other....

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