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Friday, March 24, 2006 ★ 13:43 ★ Category Programming
GNU Make is a really great tool to automate repeating tasks when you’re working on a project. I’m not only using Make to compile sofware (duh!), but also to do other things:
- Generate tags files
- Fix-up permissions
- Do uploads/rollouts
- Run tests
- Generate documentation
My problem is that I often have a top-level Makefile which contains all targets. When I’m deep down in a subdirectory, no Makefile is present over there. Now, say I want to generate documentation… I need to
cd ..up until I’m at the toplevel of my project and runmakeover there. I know you can also pass parameters tomake, but all these solutions require a lot of typing or let you lose your context (your working directory, in this case).Makeup to the rescue! Save this small shellscript to a directory in your
$PATHand you’re ready to go. Makeup tries to locate aMakefilein the current directory and tries again (recursively) on the parent directory if noMakefilewas found. You can invokemakeupin the same way as you invokemake, because parameters are passed along.That’s it. Download makeup here. I know you want it!
Update: Wow, a fanboy! adrighem on irc: “Je bent geniaal. wakeup.” (“You’re a genius, a real wake up!”)
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Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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