make rule heritage, is that possible?

make rule heritage, is that possible?

[Daniel Hilst Selli]

I was writing a set of makefiles to build some of my projects and I see 
me copying/pasting some rules that are exactly the same, only changing 
the directory where they are executed and the variables contents.

Is there a way to write this kind of rules once and let it been 
inherited from a make directory level to another...

I think on something like this,

Top Makefile
--
generic-rule:
	...
--

subdir/Makefile
--
inherit generic-rule
--

I think about writing this rules on a Common.mk makefile and -include 
this file. Does anyone tried someting like that before?

Re: make rule heritage, is that possible?

[Darío Mariani]

  Yes, I have this working. I have a top level makefile that calls
make on each subproject, and in each subproject makefile, first I
define the variables specific to the project and then I include a
common.mk. It took me some time to have it working to my taste, you
will probably have to read the make manual thoroughly as I did.
  There is another option, which I never investigated, there are many
other options for project compilation, like cmake or bjam.
  Darío

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Hilst Selli
<danielhilst@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was writing a set of makefiles to build some of my projects and I see me
> copying/pasting some rules that are exactly the same, only changing the
> directory where they are executed and the variables contents.
>
> Is there a way to write this kind of rules once and let it been inherited
> from a make directory level to another...
>
> I think on something like this,
>
> Top Makefile
> --
> generic-rule:
>         ...
> --
>
> subdir/Makefile
> --
> inherit generic-rule
> --
>
> I think about writing this rules on a Common.mk makefile and -include this
> file. Does anyone tried someting like that before?
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