Re: Dynamic make target

[Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Toan Pham <tpham3783@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I do not know where to ask this question perhaps this mailing list is
> best because it had to do with c complilation.
>
> I would like to set up a make target dynamicly.  for example
>
> when one issue command:  make sda1
> it auto compile and install to a mount point @ /mnt/sda1
>
> similiarly: make sda2 would compile and install to /mnt/sda2
>
>
> i know that in a makefile one can accomplish this by setting up two targets, ie.
>
> sda1:
>       make all
>       mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
>       cp releases/* /mnt/sda1
>       umount /mnt/sda1
>
> sda2:
>       make all
>       mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda2
>       cp releases/* /mnt/sda2
>       umount /mnt/sda2
>
>
> i am curious if we can simplify everything by having a make target
> like this when no matches found


Will something like this help ?

/tmp/test> make
echo "Making defaults"
Making defaults

/tmp/test> make TARGET=manish
echo manish is target;
manish is target

/tmp/test> cat Makefile
ifeq ("$(origin TARGET)", "command line")
$(TARGET):
	echo $@ is target;
else
all:
	echo "Making defaults"
endif



>
> $param1:
>       make all
>       mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/$param1
>       cp releases/* /mnt/$param1
>       umount /mnt/$param1
>
> thank you,
>
> Toan
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Manish
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