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Compiling with g++ using multiple cores

Quick question: what is the compiler flag to allow g++ to spawn multiple instances of itself in order to compile large projects quicker ...

June 4, 2022
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linux, Programming

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Compiling C++ on remote Linux machine – “clock skew detected” warning

I’m connected to my university’s small Linux cluster via PuTTY and WinSCP, transferring files using the latter and compiling and running them with ...

June 4, 2022
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makefile, Programming

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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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Programming, shell

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How to set child process’ environment variable in Makefile

I would like to change this Makefile: SHELL := /bin/bash PATH := node_modules/.bin:$(PATH) boot: @supervisor \ --harmony \ --watch etc,lib \ --extensions js,json ...

June 3, 2022
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linux, Programming

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Make install, but not to default directories?

I want to run ‘make install’ so I have everything I need, but I’d like it to install the things in their own ...

June 3, 2022
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makefile, Programming

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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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makefile, Programming

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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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Using G++ to compile multiple .cpp and .h files

I’ve just inherited some C++ code that was written poorly with one cpp file which contained the main and a bunch of other ...

May 28, 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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linux, Programming

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Suppress echo of command invocation in makefile?

I wrote a program for an assignment which is supposed to print its output to stdout. The assignment spec requires the creation of ...

May 26, 2022
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