Questions tagged [make]
For questions pertaining to make, a utility that automates the build process by managing dependencies amongst targets. Use this tag for questions about make itself or questions about issues arising from using the make command-line utility.
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Need to ensure a certain binary is built early and excluded from clean
Trying to run this code in my Makefile:
MAKEFLAGS+=--no-buildin-rules
MAKEVARIABLES+=--no-builtin-variables
fixClean: dissoc.c
echo "Inside fixClean"
${CC} $<.c ${CFLAGS} ${LIBS} -...
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sed in makefile is not working as expected when using regex
Got a makefile whith this command which convert folder names on ./cmd/ from snake_case to PascalCase
test:
@for f in $(shell ls ./cmd/); do \
echo $${f}; \
echo $${f} | sed -r 's/(^...
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Can I use a flexible (either or) prerequisite in GNU make?
Is it possible to have a flexible extension for a prerequisite? For example, let's say I want to apply a rule to a list of targets that all have the same prerequisite pattern, except that some of them ...
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Does CMake/make have the ability to make my Linux operating system unstable?
30 years ago, I've started C++. Mostly under DOS, Windows 3.1 and 95. I've wrote some for 10 years. Then Java replaced it at work, for about 20 years. Now C++ in coming back in the front of the scene. ...
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Cannot compile kernel modules on TrueNAS Scale
I have a Ugreen DXP 6800 Pro and the OS disk died. No actual NAS data was lost but I cannot figure out how to get the OS back to the same state. I was previously able to compile modules and add them ...
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Why doesn't `rm -f *.{log,pdf,bbl,blg,aux}` work in a Makefile? How to repair? [duplicate]
In someone's Makefile, I saw
clean:
rm -f *.{log,pdf,bbl,blg,aux}
Upon running make clean, all the files were still there as before; nothing was removed. So what's the analogon of a shell's rm -...
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Does a .h file for external kernel modules need compilation in another, particular manner?
I have an external kernel module and a Makefile. I was using Kbuild but decided to go with a straight Makefile and make. I have my headers installed, build-essential and kmod installed, and I am ...
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Using make variable in bash scripting as part of a makefile command
I've created a makefile command to automate a publishing workflow using Pandoc and the Generic Preprocessor (GPP). It is as follows:
TODAY = $(shell date +'%Y%m%d-%H%M')
MACROS = utils/gpp/macros.md
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make menuconfig fails while working on busybox only
I was following the guide here and when I tried running make menuconfig it said
Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the required header files.
'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
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MPFR 4.2.1 in Solaris 10 x86_64 gmp.h and libgmp seem to have different versions
I am trying to compile the latest version of GCC to try compiling Modula 3 CM3 but I first have to have versions of GMP, MPFR, and MPC.
GMP installs correctly using
./configure --build-x86_64-oracle-...
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GNU `make`, modification times, leap seconds and NTP
GNU make relies on timestamps to see if a dependency was changed after some file was built. If you make a change during the leap second or an NTP adjustment, is it possible that make will believe the ...
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Getting these make command errors while compiling an android kernel
──(root㉿kali)-[~/Documents/kernel-source-alioth-stock]
└─# make -j2 CC=clang O=output/ $config
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/Documents/kernel-source-alioth-stock/output'
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HOSTLD scripts/...
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How to make all targets in the Makefile depend on a specific file?
Here in make I want to make all targets in the whole Makefile depend on a specific file. (That specific file is Makefile in fact, because that's where I have all my formulas. But that's beside the ...
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String replace in wildcard using find command
I want to exclude all C files that have a matching asm file. The assembly files all have _x86_64.S at the end. The C files have identical names, but with .c instead of _x86_64.S at the end. How would ...
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How to make MAKEFLAGS=--warn-undefined-variables apply to current Makefile?
Yes I read
Communicating Options to a Sub-'make'
but I want to set an option for this make, not a sub-make,
and set it within the Makefile, not via the command line.
$ cat Makefile
MAKEFLAGS = --warn-...
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