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Re: to know the meaning of makefiles!


From: Luke Shumaker
Subject: Re: to know the meaning of makefiles!
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:42:38 -0400

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 09:02 +0430, ali hagigat wrote:
> 3.9 How make Reads a Makefile
> GNU make does its work in two distinct phases. During the first phase
> it reads all the make-
> files, included makefiles, etc. and internalizes all the variables and
> their values, implicit and....
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have copied some lines of make manual. It says: "during the first
> phase it reads all the makefiles.... "
> Can make command read several makefiles? Would you please give me an example?

Yes, you can specify multiple files with the `-f' flag, additionally,
this includes files that are called by `include'.

~ LukeShu




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