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make subdirectory

These should always be the reference files for the build process.

Needs

• GNU autoconf
• GNU make

Features

• makes libraries or programs
• selectable support for:

  dmalloc erwin PAG CrlFront liberror libcrl2 libpathan liblisp symbols flex gperf bison

• very short Makefiles

  (extensive use of GNU Make features)

• per file options to GCC. (Searches --extra-options-gcc: .... lines)
• compilation of C and C++:

  automatic dependency updates

• make targets:

  all clean, distclean, develclean wincopy, wincopyall count

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Start a new project

• make a new directory and cd into it.
• cvs checkout -d make ht/make
• cp make/{configure.in,Makefile.in,.cvsignore,cvscompile} . Edit these, look for REPLACE. (Make a .c or .cpp file for the AC_INIT configure test).
• for Erwin: cp make/makeerwin . Edit it.
• for Libraries:
  • LIBNAME=your_library_name cp make/libTEMPLATE-version.in.in ./lib${LIBNAME}-version.in.in

    Edit it to change the copyright information.

  • mkdir include cp make/Makefile.in.subdir include/

    mkdir include/your_library_name cp make/Makefile.in.subdir include/your_library_name

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Makefile variables

CMODULES

files to be compiled and linked using C. File ending: .c

CPPMODULES

file to be compiled and linked using C++. File ending: .cpp

CXXMODULES
CCMODULES

Deprecated!
(C++ files with different endings. 'make wincopyall' does not support these)

LMODULES

Flex modules to be processed with flex and then compiled using either C or C++. File ending: .l

Note: a prefix is automatically set by the filename stem. E.g. test.l would set a prefix of 'test_', i.e., the scanned text would be 'test_text'. The intermediate C/C++ file would be called test_scanner.c/cpp/cc.

YMODULES

Bison modules to be processed with bison and then compiled using either C or C++. File ending: .y

Note: a prefix is automatically set by the filename stem. E.g. test.y would set a prefix of 'test_', i.e., the scanned text would be 'test_text'. The intermediate C/C++ file would be called test_parser.c/cpp/cc and the header file test_parser.h.

GPERFMODULES

Files to be processed with gperf. File ending: .gperf Output files: same filename stem, but .inc.

These are not automatically compiled but expected to be #included in another C/C++ file.

The GPerf command line is search in the input file:

Command-line: ...

Many more unfortunately currently without documentation.