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Re: Can you export rules in Make?
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Can you export rules in Make? |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:38 -0400 |
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 20:41 +0530, Ajay Jain wrote:
> I have a recursive make system, where a top level makefile just calls
> the makefile of a subdirectory. I export variables from top level to
> sub make. Now I realize that I have to repeat all rules. Is there a
> way .. by which even the rules can be communicated from top level make
> to the sub make?
No. Make variables are exported through the environment just like any
other environment variable. There's no way to put rules into the
environment.
> OR should I just include a common rules.mk in both
> the Makefiles?
That's the typical solution.
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