Passing additional variables from command line to make

You have several options to set up variables from outside your makefile: From environment – each environment variable is transformed into a makefile variable with the same name and value. You may also want to set -e option (aka –environments-override) on, and your environment variables will override assignments made into makefile (unless these assignments themselves … Read more

Program “make” not found in PATH

I’m having the Program “make” not found in PATH error in eclipse. I checked the path variable which is: The PATH starts with the folder which contains make (I checked and make.exe is in there), but eclipse still goes Program “make” not found in PATH. I have tried changing the path and restarting several times … Read more

The difference between .mk file and Makefile

A make file can have any name. The -f option of make is used to specify which file to use: You can even use -f several times: In which case make processes the files in order (or, equivalently, concatenates the files and processes the result). makefile and Makefile are special names because if make is called without the -f option it automatically searches for them, in this order, and use the first … Read more

What is the job of autogen.sh when building a c++ package on Linux

The steps: The autogen.sh script generates the configure script (from configure.ac, using autoconf) and any files it needs (like creating Makefile.in from Makefile.am using automake). This requires autotools to be installed on your system, and it must be run when checking out the project from source control (if configure isn’t checked in). People who download source tarballs can usually skip this step, because output of this … Read more

makefiles CFLAGS

CFLAGS is a variable that is most commonly used to add arguments to the compiler. In this case, it define macros. So the -DPACKET_LINK is the equivalent of putting #define PACKET_LINK 1 at the top of all .c and .h files in your project. Most likely, you have code inside your project that looks if these macros are defined … Read more