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How to abort makefile if variable not set?

How could I abort a make/makefile execution based on a makefile’s variable not being set/valued? I came up with this, but works only ...

June 3, 2022
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What does @: (at symbol colon) mean in a Makefile?

What does the following do in a Makefile? rule: $(deps) @: I can’t seem to find this in the make manual. 2 Answers ...

June 1, 2022
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How can I configure my makefile for debug and release builds?

I have the following makefile for my project, and I’d like to configure it for release and debug builds. In my code, I ...

June 1, 2022
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What do @, – and + do as prefixes to recipe lines in Make?

In the GNU Makefile manual, it mentions these prefixes. If .ONESHELL is provided, then only the first line of the recipe will be ...

May 27, 2022
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How does “make” app know default target to build if no target is specified?

Most Linux apps are compiled with: make make install clean As I understand it, the make command takes names of build targets as ...

May 23, 2022
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How to write loop in a Makefile?

I want to execute the following commands: ./a.out 1 ./a.out 2 ./a.out 3 ./a.out 4 . . . and so on How to ...

May 21, 2022
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Define make variable at rule execution time

In my GNUmakefile, I would like to have a rule that uses a temporary directory. For example: out.tar: TMP := $(shell mktemp -d) ...

May 21, 2022
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How to get current relative directory of your Makefile?

I have a several Makefiles in app specific directories like this: /project1/apps/app_typeA/Makefile /project1/apps/app_typeB/Makefile /project1/apps/app_typeC/Makefile Each Makefile includes a .inc file in this path ...

May 20, 2022
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How do you get the list of targets in a makefile?

I’ve used rake a bit (a Ruby make program), and it has an option to get a list of all the available targets, ...

May 19, 2022
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Why does make think the target is up to date?

This is my Makefile: REBAR=./rebar REBAR_COMPILE=$(REBAR) get-deps compile all: compile compile: $(REBAR_COMPILE) test: $(REBAR_COMPILE) skip_deps=true eunit clean: -rm -rf deps ebin priv doc/* ...

May 17, 2022
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