Octave's Makefile

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Feb-2000, Dirk Laurie <address@hidden> wrote:

| I use Octave on several machines, so I tried 'make binary-dist'
| after a normal 'make' (which I take as equivalent to 'make all')
| in order to be able to move the result around.  I got the impression 
| that everything was made from scratch.
| 
|    Is this impression correct?
| 
|    Would changing the order be better?

For 2.0.x, the binary-dist target in the top-level Makefile does this:

binary-dist: FORCE
        @if test -f configure && test -f octMakefile.in ; then \
          ./configure --enable-shared --enable-lite-kernel ; \
        else \
          echo "" ; \
          echo "*** You must run make binary-dist in the source directory." ; \
          echo "" ; \
          exit 1 ; \
        fi
        $(MAKE) -f octMakefile CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O all
        $(MAKE) -f octMakefile binary-dist

So if you didn't configure with --enable-shared the first time around,
it may compile a lot of stuff again, using the PIC flags.

jwe



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