Re: Interating over Target List with Jobs?

[Erik Rull]

Hi Per,

Per Jessen wrote:
> Erik Rull wrote:
> > I've a list of targets each in a different directory that was built
> > and now I want to clean them up. Each directory has a own "clean" make
> > target, so I wrote in the base directory makefile:
> >
> > clean:
> > for MODULE in $(MODULE_LIST); do make -C $$MODULE clean; done
> >
> > But this iterates only module by module and does not allow any
> > jobserver operation via "+ make".
> >
> > Any ideas how to approach that?
>
> clean1:
>          make -C mod1 clean
> clean2:
>          make -C mod2 clean
> clean3:
>          make -C mod2 clean
> clean4:
>          make -C mod2 clean
> clean5:
>          make -C mod2 clean
>
> clean: clean1 clean2 clean3 clean4 clean5
>
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich

Hm, well, yes - this could be possbile - but quite brute-force ;-)
If I add a new module, just the list of targets gets extended and I've 
nothing to change in the makefile - with your approach a new clean rule 
must be added manually.

Best regards,

Erik