Re: need help with the Makefile

[John Graham-Cumming]

address@hidden wrote:
> Did anybody got the chance to take a look at following request ?

Not so far.  I'll try to answer your questions but they are a little 
hard to understand.

>    1. in common.mk, how do I set variables for different platforms and
>       different OS versions(for the same platform)

You should do something to determine what platform you are on and then 
use a conditional such as ifeq to decide which variables to set.  You 
might like to take a look at the article I wrote for DDJ on Cross 
Plaforms Builds (a copy of it can be found on this page: 
http://www.electric-cloud.com/resources/)

>    2. is there any way to set target specific
>       variables(CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/INCLUDE) instead of passing them at the
>       command line to $(MAKE). As CFLAGS list is long.

I think we'll be able to answer this if you define what you mean by a 
target.  If you mean target in the GNU Make sense (e.g. name of file to 
the left of :) then the answer is yes.  So have FOO have value bar for 
the target targ you would write:

targ: FOO=bar

John.