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Recursive
use of make
Recursive
use of make
means using make
as a command in a makefile. This technique is useful when you want separate
makefiles for various subsystems that compose a larger system. For example,
suppose you have a subdirectory, ‘subdir’,
which has its own makefile, and you would like the containing directory’s
makefile to run make
on the subdirectory. You can do it by writing the following declaration.
subsystem:
cd subdir; $(MAKE)
Or, equivalently (see Summary
of options), use the following input.
subsystem:
$(MAKE) -C subdir
You can write recursive make
commands just by copying this example, but there are many things to know
about how they work and why, and about how the sub-make
relates to the top-level make.
See the following documentation
for more discusssion.
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