Re: Calling submakes

[Rob Tulloh]

Roko,

GNU make is supposed to read the first rule that is not preceeded by a
'.' and
execute that as the default rule when invoked. In your case, this would
be the 'all'
rule so there should be no difference between 'make' and 'make all'. I
wonder if
your Makefile in your note is correct. I wrote one that looks like this:



SUBDIRS = one two three

.PHONY: $(SUBDIRS) all

all: $(SUBDIRS)

$(SUBDIRS):
        $(MAKE) -C $@

It works for both style invocations. I am using make 3.78.1 for my test.
Is this
problem particular to the version of make you are running?

Rob

Roko Kruze wrote:

> I've having a little problem with the latest version of make that
> maybe someone has had before.
>
> I'm going through a directory listing and calling all the submakes
> under them.It looks something like.
>
> DIRS = one \
>
> two \
>
> three \
>
> four
>
> .PHONY: $(DIRS) all
>
> all:$(DIRS)
>
> Now if I call just 'make' it only goes into one and skips everything
> else.However, if I call 'make all' it goes into all of them. Anyway to
> get around this?
>
> -Roko
>

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