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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 to install and use “make” in Windows?

I’m following the instructions of someone whose repository I cloned to my machine. I want to use the make command as part of ...

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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How to print out a variable in makefile

In my makefile, I have a variable ‘NDK_PROJECT_PATH’, my question is how can I print it out when it compiles? I read Make ...

May 14, 2022
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Using CMake with GNU Make: How can I see the exact commands?

I use CMake with GNU Make and would like to see all commands exactly (for example how the compiler is executed, all the ...

May 14, 2022
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How do I write the ‘cd’ command in a makefile?

For example, I have something like this in my makefile: all: cd some_directory But when I typed make I saw only ‘cd some_directory’, ...

May 6, 2022
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