Re: Making in subdirectories

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Magnus Fromreide <address@hidden> writes:

  mf> My current makefile structure is

  mf> Makefile:
  mf> prog: lib
  mf> prog lib:
  mf>   for x in A B ; do $(MAKE) -C $x $@ ; done

  mf> Now I want to make it possible to build this with as much
  mf> paralelism as possible, how should that be done?

There are some notes about this in the GNU make manual.

  mf> One approach is to use .PHONY subdirectories as targets

This is the right approach.

  mf> but that fails since it is all but impossible to specify the
  mf> target that is to be built.

Try $(MAKECMDGOALS).

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