Re: problem with two makefiles

[John Graham-Cumming]

Vasu S wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what is the problem with my code?

1. You write $MAKE, $INSTALL in the code, but GNU Make requires () 
around the name of the variable otherwise it's just going to use the 
first letter as the variable name (e.g. $MAKE is the value of $M 
followed by AKE).  For those you need to write $(MAKE) and $(INSTALL)

2. You say "INSTALL command is getting executed even though the lib.a
> is upto date".  What is TARGET?   It is TARGET that determines 
whether that rule gets run.  If TARGET does not exist, or if TARGET is 
older than $(DEST)/lib.a then it's going to call the recursive $(MAKE) 
on Makefile.bld.

3. Why can't you have the INSTALL command in Makefile?

4. I think the problem here is that you aren't being clear with the 
target names.  e.g. what is the target name of the installer?  I assume 
it's not LIB?

John.
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