Re: how to properly define a make file that builds two distinct objects

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Paul Smith wrote:

> The best practice I've seen used everywhere (and what I use
> personally) is to conditionalize all the variables with the target
> names.  So, you can do something like:
>
>       TARGETLIB = fubar.so barfoo.so
>
>       fobar.so_SRCS = src1.c src2.c
>
>       barfoo.so_SRCS = src3.cpp src4.c
>
> etc.  Now in your rules to build things, conditionalize all the
> variables with $@ like this:
>
>       $(CC) ... $(address@hidden)
>
> anyway, you get the idea.  Sometimes it's better to use $* instead;
> it really depends on what you're doing.

  ah, yes, this will work nicely, thanks.

rday
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