Re: How to Create Pattern Rule in GNUmake for Source from Multiple Places?

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden (Hon-Chi Ng) wrote:
> So, the ugly and inefficient way is to explicitly write all the rules
> one by one, e.g.
> 
>   /tmp/abc.o: /aaa/bbb/ccc/abc.c
>          $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
> 
>   /tmp/def.o: /ddd/eee/fff/def.c
>          $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
> 
>   /tmp/ghi.o: /ggg/hhh/iii/ghi.c
>          $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
> 
> However, it becomes an impossible task when SRC_FILES contains more than
> 50 files.

That's ugly and inefficient if you manually maintain the Makefile, but
it's simple and precise if you manually maintain a script that
generates the Makefile.


paul