On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dan Strick wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:23:02 -0700, Dan Strick wrote:
I just spent a *very* frustrating hour trying to figure out why the
FreeBSD make program was invoking all commands to make things in a
subdirectory named "obj".
I just noticed this is in the BUGS section of make:
The determination of .OBJDIR is contorted to the point of
absurdity.
It seems that I have no alternative but to rename my "obj" directory.
Can someone suggest an alternative? Note that it is not possible for
me to set an environment variable (i.e. MAKEOBJDIR) before running
make or to add an option to the make command line. Any fix must be
contained entirely within the makefile. Setting .OBJDIR or MAKEOBJDIR
within the makefile does not work. Placing a "cd .." or "cd
$(.CURDIR)" in front of every set of makefile shell commands is
unthinkable.
Why are you unable to do anything with the command-line? Any of these
will solve your problem.
Bourne:
MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make
Bourne or CSH:
env MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make
Here is a Makefile that does not use obj/. The special targets can be
placed into a file to be included into all your Makefiles. It only
suffers from a failed build where it will not rename obj to tmpobj.
-----------------------
.BEGIN:
mv tmpobj obj || mkdir obj
.INTERRUPT:
mv obj tmpobj
.END:
mv obj tmpobj
all:
touch testing
clean:
rm -f testing
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Sean
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