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make - maintain, update, and regenerate groups of programs (
DEVELOPMENT)
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make [-einpqrst][-f
makefile]...[ -k|
-S][macro=value]...
[target_name
...]
The
make utility shall update files that are derived from other files. A
typical case is one where object files are derived from the corresponding
source files. The
make utility examines time relationships and shall
update those derived files (called targets) that have modified times earlier
than the modified times of the files (called prerequisites) from which they
are derived. A description file (makefile) contains a description of the
relationships between files, and the commands that need to be executed to
update the targets to reflect changes in their prerequisites. Each
specification, or rule, shall consist of a target, optional prerequisites, and
optional commands to be executed when a prerequisite is newer than the target.
There are two types of rule:
- 1.
- Inference rules, which have one target name with at
least one period ( '.' ) and no slash ( '/' )
- 2.
- Target rules, which can have more than one target
name
In addition,
make shall have a collection of built-in macros and
inference rules that infer prerequisite relationships to simplify maintenance
of programs.
To receive exactly the behavior described in this section, the user shall ensure
that a portable makefile shall:
- *
- Include the special target .POSIX
- *
- Omit any special target reserved for implementations (a
leading period followed by uppercase letters) that has not been specified
by this section
The behavior of
make is unspecified if either or both of these conditions
are not met.
The
make utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following options shall be supported:
- -e
- Cause environment variables, including those with null
values, to override macro assignments within makefiles.
- -f makefile
- Specify a different makefile. The argument makefile
is a pathname of a description file, which is also referred to as the
makefile. A pathname of '-' shall denote the standard input.
There can be multiple instances of this option, and they shall be
processed in the order specified. The effect of specifying the same
option-argument more than once is unspecified.
- -i
- Ignore error codes returned by invoked commands. This mode
is the same as if the special target .IGNORE were specified without
prerequisites.
- -k
- Continue to update other targets that do not depend on the
current target if a non-ignored error occurs while executing the commands
to bring a target up-to-date.
- -n
- Write commands that would be executed on standard output,
but do not execute them. However, lines with a plus sign ( '+' )
prefix shall be executed. In this mode, lines with an at sign ( '@'
) character prefix shall be written to standard output.
- -p
- Write to standard output the complete set of macro
definitions and target descriptions. The output format is
unspecified.
- -q
- Return a zero exit value if the target file is up-to-date;
otherwise, return an exit value of 1. Targets shall not be updated if this
option is specified. However, a makefile command line (associated with the
targets) with a plus sign ( '+' ) prefix shall be executed.
- -r
- Clear the suffix list and do not use the built-in
rules.
- -S
- Terminate make if an error occurs while executing
the commands to bring a target up-to-date. This shall be the default and
the opposite of -k.
- -s
- Do not write makefile command lines or touch messages (see
-t) to standard output before executing. This mode shall be the
same as if the special target .SILENT were specified without
prerequisites.
- -t
- Update the modification time of each target as though a
touch target had been executed. Targets that have
prerequisites but no commands (see Target Rules ), or that are already
up-to-date, shall not be touched in this manner. Write messages to
standard output for each target file indicating the name of the file and
that it was touched. Normally, the makefile command lines
associated with each target are not executed. However, a command line with
a plus sign ( '+' ) prefix shall be executed.
Any options specified in the
MAKEFLAGS environment variable shall be
evaluated before any options specified on the
make utility command
line. If the
-k and
-S options are both specified on the
make utility command line or by the
MAKEFLAGS environment
variable, the last option specified shall take precedence. If the
-f or
-p options appear in the
MAKEFLAGS environment variable, the
result is undefined.
The following operands shall be supported:
- target_name
- Target names, as defined in the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
section. If no target is specified, while make is processing the
makefiles, the first target that make encounters that is not a
special target or an inference rule shall be used.
- macro=value
- Macro definitions, as defined in Macros .
If the
target_name and
macro=
value operands are intermixed
on the
make utility command line, the results are unspecified.
The standard input shall be used only if the
makefile option-argument is
'-' . See the INPUT FILES section.
The input file, otherwise known as the makefile, is a text file containing
rules, macro definitions, and comments. See the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION section.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
make:
- LANG
- Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to
determine the values of locale categories.)
- LC_ALL
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
- LC_CTYPE
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
multi-byte characters in arguments and input files).
- LC_MESSAGES
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- MAKEFLAGS
-
This variable shall be interpreted as a character string representing a
series of option characters to be used as the default options. The
implementation shall accept both of the following formats (but need not
accept them when intermixed):
- *
- The characters are option letters without the leading
hyphens or <blank> separation used on a make utility command
line.
- *
- The characters are formatted in a manner similar to a
portion of the make utility command line: options are preceded by
hyphens and <blank>-separated as described in the Base Definitions
volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax
Guidelines. The macro= value macro definition operands can
also be included. The difference between the contents of MAKEFLAGS
and the make utility command line is that the contents of the
variable shall not be subjected to the word expansions (see Word
Expansions ) associated with parsing the command line values.
- NLSPATH
- Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES .
- PROJECTDIR
-
Provide a directory to be used to search for SCCS files not found in the
current directory. In all of the following cases, the search for SCCS
files is made in the directory SCCS in the identified directory. If
the value of PROJECTDIR begins with a slash, it shall be considered
an absolute pathname; otherwise, the value of PROJECTDIR is treated
as a user name and that user's initial working directory shall be examined
for a subdirectory src or source. If such a directory is
found, it shall be used. Otherwise, the value is used as a relative
pathname.
If
PROJECTDIR is not set or has a null value, the search for SCCS files
shall be made in the directory
SCCS in the current directory.
The setting of
PROJECTDIR affects all files listed in the remainder of
this utility description for files with a component named
SCCS.
The value of the
SHELL environment variable shall not be used as a macro
and shall not be modified by defining the
SHELL macro in a makefile or
on the command line. All other environment variables, including those with
null values, shall be used as macros, as defined in Macros .
If not already ignored,
make shall trap SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, and
SIGQUIT and remove the current target unless the target is a directory or the
target is a prerequisite of the special target
.PRECIOUS or unless one
of the
-n,
-p, or
-q options was specified. Any targets
removed in this manner shall be reported in diagnostic messages of unspecified
format, written to standard error. After this cleanup process, if any,
make shall take the standard action for all other signals.
The
make utility shall write all commands to be executed to standard
output unless the
-s option was specified, the command is prefixed with
an at sign, or the special target
.SILENT has either the current target
as a prerequisite or has no prerequisites. If
make is invoked without
any work needing to be done, it shall write a message to standard output
indicating that no action was taken. If the
-t option is present and a
file is touched,
make shall write to standard output a message of
unspecified format indicating that the file was touched, including the
filename of the file.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
Files can be created when the
-t option is present. Additional files can
also be created by the utilities invoked by
make.
The
make utility attempts to perform the actions required to ensure that
the specified targets are up-to-date. A target is considered out-of-date if it
is older than any of its prerequisites or if it does not exist. The
make utility shall treat all prerequisites as targets themselves and
recursively ensure that they are up-to-date, processing them in the order in
which they appear in the rule. The
make utility shall use the
modification times of files to determine whether the corresponding targets are
out-of-date.
After
make has ensured that all of the prerequisites of a target are
up-to-date and if the target is out-of-date, the commands associated with the
target entry shall be executed. If there are no commands listed for the
target, the target shall be treated as up-to-date.
A makefile can contain rules, macro definitions (see Macros ), and comments.
There are two kinds of rules:
inference rules and
target rules.
The
make utility shall contain a set of built-in inference rules. If
the
-r option is present, the built-in rules shall not be used and the
suffix list shall be cleared. Additional rules of both types can be specified
in a makefile. If a rule is defined more than once, the value of the rule
shall be that of the last one specified. Macros can also be defined more than
once, and the value of the macro is specified in Macros . Comments start with
a number sign (
'#' ) and continue until an unescaped <newline>
is reached.
By default, the following files shall be tried in sequence:
./makefile
and
./Makefile. If neither
./makefile or
./Makefile are
found, other implementation-defined files may also be tried. On
XSI-conformant systems, the additional files
./s.makefile,
SCCS/s.makefile,
./s.Makefile, and
SCCS/s.Makefile shall
also be tried.
The
-f option shall direct
make to ignore any of these default
files and use the specified argument as a makefile instead. If the
'-'
argument is specified, standard input shall be used.
The term
makefile is used to refer to any rules provided by the user,
whether in
./makefile or its variants, or specified by the
-f
option.
The rules in makefiles shall consist of the following types of lines: target
rules, including special targets (see Target Rules ), inference rules (see
Inference Rules ), macro definitions (see Macros ), empty lines, and comments.
When an escaped <newline> (one preceded by a backslash) is found anywhere
in the makefile except in a command line, it shall be replaced, along with any
leading white space on the following line, with a single <space>. When
an escaped <newline> is found in a command line in a makefile, the
command line shall contain the backslash, the <newline>, and the next
line, except that the first character of the next line shall not be included
if it is a <tab>.
Makefile command lines shall be processed one at a time by writing the makefile
command line to the standard output (unless one of the conditions listed under
'@' suppresses the writing) and executing the command(s) in the line. A
<tab> may precede the command to standard output. Command execution
shall be as if the makefile command line were the argument to the
system() function. The environment for the command being executed shall
contain all of the variables in the environment of
make.
By default, when
make receives a non-zero status from the execution of a
command, it shall terminate with an error message to standard error.
Makefile command lines can have one or more of the following prefixes: a hyphen
(
'-' ), an at sign (
'@' ), or a plus sign (
'+' ).
These shall modify the way in which
make processes the command. When a
command is written to standard output, the prefix shall not be included in the
output.
- -
- If the command prefix contains a hyphen, or the -i
option is present, or the special target .IGNORE has either the
current target as a prerequisite or has no prerequisites, any error found
while executing the command shall be ignored.
- @
- If the command prefix contains an at sign and the
make utility command line -n option is not specified, or the
-s option is present, or the special target .SILENT has
either the current target as a prerequisite or has no prerequisites, the
command shall not be written to standard output before it is
executed.
- +
- If the command prefix contains a plus sign, this indicates
a makefile command line that shall be executed even if -n,
-q, or -t is specified.
Target rules are formatted as follows:
target [target...]: [prerequisite...][;command]
[<tab>command<tab>command...]
line that does not begin with <tab>
Target entries are specified by a <blank>-separated, non-null list of
targets, then a colon, then a <blank>-separated, possibly empty list of
prerequisites. Text following a semicolon, if any, and all following lines
that begin with a <tab>, are makefile command lines to be executed to
update the target. The first non-empty line that does not begin with a
<tab> or
'#' shall begin a new entry. An empty or blank line, or
a line beginning with
'#' , may begin a new entry.
Applications shall select target names from the set of characters consisting
solely of periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable
character set (see the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 6.1, Portable Character Set).
Implementations may allow other characters in target names as extensions. The
interpretation of targets containing the characters
'%' and
''
is implementation-defined.
A target that has prerequisites, but does not have any commands, can be used to
add to the prerequisite list for that target. Only one target rule for any
given target can contain commands.
Lines that begin with one of the following are called
special targets and
control the operation of
make:
- .DEFAULT
- If the makefile uses this special target, the application
shall ensure that it is specified with commands, but without
prerequisites. The commands shall be used by make if there are no
other rules available to build a target.
- .IGNORE
- Prerequisites of this special target are targets
themselves; this shall cause errors from commands associated with them to
be ignored in the same manner as specified by the -i option.
Subsequent occurrences of .IGNORE shall add to the list of targets
ignoring command errors. If no prerequisites are specified, make
shall behave as if the -i option had been specified and errors from
all commands associated with all targets shall be ignored.
- .POSIX
- The application shall ensure that this special target is
specified without prerequisites or commands. If it appears as the first
non-comment line in the makefile, make shall process the makefile
as specified by this section; otherwise, the behavior of make is
unspecified.
- .PRECIOUS
- Prerequisites of this special target shall not be removed
if make receives one of the asynchronous events explicitly
described in the ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS section. Subsequent occurrences of
.PRECIOUS shall add to the list of precious files. If no
prerequisites are specified, all targets in the makefile shall be treated
as if specified with .PRECIOUS.
- .SCCS_GET
- The application shall ensure that this special target is
specified without prerequisites. If this special target is included in a
makefile, the commands specified with this target shall replace the
default commands associated with this special target (see Default Rules ).
The commands specified with this target are used to get all SCCS files
that are not found in the current directory.
When source files are named in a dependency list,
make shall treat them
just like any other target. Because the source file is presumed to be present
in the directory, there is no need to add an entry for it to the makefile.
When a target has no dependencies, but is present in the directory,
make shall assume that that file is up-to-date. If, however, an SCCS
file named
SCCS/s. source_file is found for a target
source_file,
make compares the timestamp of the target file with
that of the
SCCS/s.source_file to ensure the target is up-to-date. If
the target is missing, or if the SCCS file is newer,
make shall
automatically issue the commands specified for the
.SCCS_GET special
target to retrieve the most recent version. However, if the target is writable
by anyone,
make shall not retrieve a new version.
- .SILENT
- Prerequisites of this special target are targets
themselves; this shall cause commands associated with them not to be
written to the standard output before they are executed. Subsequent
occurrences of .SILENT shall add to the list of targets with silent
commands. If no prerequisites are specified, make shall behave as
if the -s option had been specified and no commands or touch
messages associated with any target shall be written to standard
output.
- .SUFFIXES
- Prerequisites of .SUFFIXES shall be appended to the
list of known suffixes and are used in conjunction with the inference
rules (see Inference Rules ). If .SUFFIXES does not have any
prerequisites, the list of known suffixes shall be cleared.
The special targets
.IGNORE,
.POSIX,
.PRECIOUS,
.SILENT, and
.SUFFIXES shall be specified without commands.
Targets with names consisting of a leading period followed by the uppercase
letters
"POSIX" and then any other characters are reserved
for future standardization. Targets with names consisting of a leading period
followed by one or more uppercase letters are reserved for implementation
extensions.
Macro definitions are in the form:
The macro named
string1 is defined as having the value of
string2,
where
string2 is defined as all characters, if any, after the equal
sign, up to a comment character (
'#' ) or an unescaped
<newline>. Any <blank>s immediately before or after the equal sign
shall be ignored.
Applications shall select macro names from the set of characters consisting
solely of periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable
character set (see the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 6.1, Portable Character Set). A
macro name shall not contain an equals sign. Implementations may allow other
characters in macro names as extensions.
Macros can appear anywhere in the makefile. Macro expansions using the forms $(
string1) or ${
string1} shall be replaced by
string2, as
follows:
- *
- Macros in target lines shall be evaluated when the target
line is read.
- *
- Macros in makefile command lines shall be evaluated when
the command is executed.
- *
- Macros in the string before the equals sign in a macro
definition shall be evaluated when the macro assignment is made.
- *
- Macros after the equals sign in a macro definition shall
not be evaluated until the defined macro is used in a rule or command, or
before the equals sign in a macro definition.
The parentheses or braces are optional if
string1 is a single character.
The macro $$ shall be replaced by the single character
'$' . If
string1 in a macro expansion contains a macro expansion, the results
are unspecified.
Macro expansions using the forms $(
string1 [: subst1
=[ subst2 ]]) or ${
string1 [:
subst1 =[ subst2 ]]} can be used to replace all
occurrences of
subst1 with
subst2 when the macro substitution is
performed. The
subst1 to be replaced shall be recognized when it is a
suffix at the end of a word in
string1 (where a
word, in this
context, is defined to be a string delimited by the beginning of the line, a
<blank>, or a <newline>). If
string1 in a macro expansion
contains a macro expansion, the results are unspecified.
Macro expansions in
string1 of macro definition lines shall be evaluated
when read. Macro expansions in
string2 of macro definition lines shall
be performed when the macro identified by
string1 is expanded in a rule
or command.
Macro definitions shall be taken from the following sources, in the following
logical order, before the makefile(s) are read.
- 1.
- Macros specified on the make utility command line,
in the order specified on the command line. It is unspecified whether the
internal macros defined in Internal Macros are accepted from this
source.
- 2.
- Macros defined by the MAKEFLAGS environment
variable, in the order specified in the environment variable. It is
unspecified whether the internal macros defined in Internal Macros are
accepted from this source.
- 3.
- The contents of the environment, excluding the
MAKEFLAGS and SHELL variables and including the variables
with null values.
- 4.
- Macros defined in the inference rules built into
make.
Macro definitions from these sources shall not override macro definitions from a
lower-numbered source. Macro definitions from a single source (for example,
the
make utility command line, the
MAKEFLAGS environment
variable, or the other environment variables) shall override previous macro
definitions from the same source.
Macros defined in the makefile(s) shall override macro definitions that occur
before them in the makefile(s) and macro definitions from source 4. If the
-e option is not specified, macros defined in the makefile(s) shall
override macro definitions from source 3. Macros defined in the makefile(s)
shall not override macro definitions from source 1 or source 2.
Before the makefile(s) are read, all of the
make utility command line
options (except
-f and
-p) and
make utility command line
macro definitions (except any for the
MAKEFLAGS macro), not already
included in the
MAKEFLAGS macro, shall be added to the
MAKEFLAGS
macro, quoted in an implementation-defined manner such that when
MAKEFLAGS is read by another instance of the
make command, the
original macro's value is recovered. Other implementation-defined options and
macros may also be added to the
MAKEFLAGS macro. If this modifies the
value of the
MAKEFLAGS macro, or, if the
MAKEFLAGS macro is
modified at any subsequent time, the
MAKEFLAGS environment variable
shall be modified to match the new value of the
MAKEFLAGS macro. The
result of setting
MAKEFLAGS in the Makefile is unspecified.
Before the makefile(s) are read, all of the
make utility command line
macro definitions (except the
MAKEFLAGS macro or the
SHELL
macro) shall be added to the environment of
make. Other
implementation-defined variables may also be added to the environment of
make.
The
SHELL macro shall be treated specially. It shall be provided by
make and set to the pathname of the shell command language interpreter
(see
sh ). The
SHELL environment variable shall not affect the
value of the
SHELL macro. If
SHELL is defined in the makefile or
is specified on the command line, it shall replace the original value of the
SHELL macro, but shall not affect the
SHELL environment
variable. Other effects of defining
SHELL in the makefile or on the
command line are implementation-defined.
Inference rules are formatted as follows:
target:
<tab>command
[<tab>command]...
line that does not begin with <tab> or #
The application shall ensure that the
target portion is a valid target
name (see Target Rules ) of the form
.s2 or
.s1.s2 (where
.s1 and
.s2 are suffixes that have been given as prerequisites
of the
.SUFFIXES special target and
s1 and
s2 do not
contain any slashes or periods.) If there is only one period in the target, it
is a single-suffix inference rule. Targets with two periods are double-suffix
inference rules. Inference rules can have only one target before the colon.
The application shall ensure that the makefile does not specify prerequisites
for inference rules; no characters other than white space shall follow the
colon in the first line, except when creating the
empty rule, described
below. Prerequisites are inferred, as described below.
Inference rules can be redefined. A target that matches an existing inference
rule shall overwrite the old inference rule. An empty rule can be created with
a command consisting of simply a semicolon (that is, the rule still exists and
is found during inference rule search, but since it is empty, execution has no
effect). The empty rule can also be formatted as follows:
where zero or more <blank>s separate the colon and semicolon.
The
make utility uses the suffixes of targets and their prerequisites to
infer how a target can be made up-to-date. A list of inference rules defines
the commands to be executed. By default,
make contains a built-in set
of inference rules. Additional rules can be specified in the makefile.
The special target
.SUFFIXES contains as its prerequisites a list of
suffixes that shall be used by the inference rules. The order in which the
suffixes are specified defines the order in which the inference rules for the
suffixes are used. New suffixes shall be appended to the current list by
specifying a
.SUFFIXES special target in the makefile. A
.SUFFIXES target with no prerequisites shall clear the list of
suffixes. An empty
.SUFFIXES target followed by a new
.SUFFIXES
list is required to change the order of the suffixes.
Normally, the user would provide an inference rule for each suffix. The
inference rule to update a target with a suffix
.s1 from a prerequisite
with a suffix
.s2 is specified as a target
.s2.s1. The internal
macros provide the means to specify general inference rules (see Internal
Macros ).
When no target rule is found to update a target, the inference rules shall be
checked. The suffix of the target (
.s1) to be built is compared to the
list of suffixes specified by the
.SUFFIXES special targets. If the
.s1 suffix is found in
.SUFFIXES, the inference rules shall be
searched in the order defined for the first
.s2.s1 rule whose
prerequisite file (
$*.s2) exists. If the target is out-of-date with
respect to this prerequisite, the commands for that inference rule shall be
executed.
If the target to be built does not contain a suffix and there is no rule for the
target, the single suffix inference rules shall be checked. The single-suffix
inference rules define how to build a target if a file is found with a name
that matches the target name with one of the single suffixes appended. A rule
with one suffix
.s2 is the definition of how to build
target
from
target.s2. The other suffix (
.s1) is treated as null.
A tilde (
'~' ) in the above rules refers to an SCCS file in the current
directory. Thus, the rule
.c~.o would transform an SCCS C-language
source file into an object file (
.o). Because the
s. of the
SCCS files is a prefix, it is incompatible with
make's suffix point of
view. Hence, the
'~' is a way of changing any file reference into an
SCCS file reference.
If a target or prerequisite contains parentheses, it shall be treated as a
member of an archive library. For the
lib(
member .o)
expression
lib refers to the name of the archive library and
member .o to the member name. The application shall ensure that
the member is an object file with the
.o suffix. The modification time
of the expression is the modification time for the member as kept in the
archive library; see
ar . The
.a suffix shall refer to an
archive library. The
.s2.a rule shall be used to update a member in the
library from a file with a suffix
.s2.
The
make utility shall maintain five internal macros that can be used in
target and inference rules. In order to clearly define the meaning of these
macros, some clarification of the terms
target rule,
inference
rule,
target, and
prerequisite is necessary.
Target rules are specified by the user in a makefile for a particular target.
Inference rules are user-specified or
make-specified rules for a
particular class of target name. Explicit prerequisites are those
prerequisites specified in a makefile on target lines. Implicit prerequisites
are those prerequisites that are generated when inference rules are used.
Inference rules are applied to implicit prerequisites or to explicit
prerequisites that do not have target rules defined for them in the makefile.
Target rules are applied to targets specified in the makefile.
Before any target in the makefile is updated, each of its prerequisites (both
explicit and implicit) shall be updated. This shall be accomplished by
recursively processing each prerequisite. Upon recursion, each prerequisite
shall become a target itself. Its prerequisites in turn shall be processed
recursively until a target is found that has no prerequisites, at which point
the recursion stops. The recursion shall then back up, updating each target as
it goes.
In the definitions that follow, the word
target refers to one of:
- *
- A target specified in the makefile
- *
- An explicit prerequisite specified in the makefile that
becomes the target when make processes it during recursion
- *
- An implicit prerequisite that becomes a target when
make processes it during recursion
In the definitions that follow, the word
prerequisite refers to one of
the following:
- *
- An explicit prerequisite specified in the makefile for a
particular target
- *
- An implicit prerequisite generated as a result of locating
an appropriate inference rule and corresponding file that matches the
suffix of the target
The five internal macros are:
- $@
- The $@ shall evaluate to the full target name of the
current target, or the archive filename part of a library archive target.
It shall be evaluated for both target and inference rules.
For example, in the
.c.a inference rule, $@ represents the out-of-date
.a file to be built. Similarly, in a makefile target rule to build
lib.a from
file.c, $@ represents the out-of-date
lib.a.
- $%
- The $% macro shall be evaluated only when the current
target is an archive library member of the form libname(
member .o). In these cases, $@ shall evaluate to
libname and $% shall evaluate to member .o. The $%
macro shall be evaluated for both target and inference rules.
For example, in a makefile target rule to build
lib.a(
file.o), $%
represents
file.o, as opposed to $@, which represents
lib.a.
- $?
- The $? macro shall evaluate to the list of prerequisites
that are newer than the current target. It shall be evaluated for both
target and inference rules.
For example, in a makefile target rule to build
prog from
file1.o,
file2.o, and
file3.o, and where
prog is not out-of-date
with respect to
file1.o, but is out-of-date with respect to
file2.o and
file3.o, $? represents
file2.o and
file3.o.
- $<
- In an inference rule, the $< macro shall evaluate to the
filename whose existence allowed the inference rule to be chosen for the
target. In the .DEFAULT rule, the $< macro shall evaluate to the
current target name. The meaning of the $< macro shall be otherwise
unspecified.
For example, in the
.c.a inference rule, $< represents the
prerequisite
.c file.
- $*
- The $* macro shall evaluate to the current target name with
its suffix deleted. It shall be evaluated at least for inference
rules.
For example, in the
.c.a inference rule, $*.o represents the out-of-date
.o file that corresponds to the prerequisite
.c file.
Each of the internal macros has an alternative form. When an uppercase
'D' or
'F' is appended to any of the macros, the meaning shall
be changed to the
directory part for
'D' and
filename
part for
'F' . The directory part is the path prefix of the file
without a trailing slash; for the current directory, the directory part is
'.' . When the $? macro contains more than one prerequisite filename,
the $(?D) and $(?F) (or ${?D} and ${?F}) macros expand to a list of directory
name parts and filename parts respectively.
For the target
lib(
member .o) and the
s2.a rule,
the internal macros shall be defined as:
- $<
- member .s2
- $*
- member
- $@
- lib
- $?
- member .s2
- $%
- member .o
The default rules for
make shall achieve results that are the same as if
the following were used. Implementations that do not support the C-Language
Development Utilities option may omit
CC,
CFLAGS,
YACC,
YFLAGS,
LEX,
LFLAGS,
LDFLAGS, and the
.c,
.y, and
.l inference rules. Implementations that do not support
FORTRAN may omit
FC,
FFLAGS, and the
.f inference rules.
Implementations may provide additional macros and rules.
SPECIAL TARGETS
.SCCS_GET: sccs $(SCCSFLAGS) get $(SCCSGETFLAGS) $@
.SUFFIXES: .o .c .y .l .a .sh .f .c~ .y~ .l~ .sh~ .f~
MACROS
MAKE=make
AR=ar
ARFLAGS=-rv
YACC=yacc
YFLAGS=
LEX=lex
LFLAGS=
LDFLAGS=
CC=c99
CFLAGS=-O
FC=fort77
FFLAGS=-O 1
GET=get
GFLAGS=
SCCSFLAGS=
SCCSGETFLAGS=-s
SINGLE SUFFIX RULES
.c:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<
.f:
$(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<
.sh:
cp $< $@
chmod a+x $@
.c~:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $*.c
.f~:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.f
$(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $*.f
.sh~:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.sh
cp $*.sh $@
chmod a+x $@
DOUBLE SUFFIX RULES
.c.o:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
.f.o:
$(FC) $(FFLAGS) -c $<
.y.o:
$(YACC) $(YFLAGS) $<
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c y.tab.c
rm -f y.tab.c
mv y.tab.o $@
.l.o:
$(LEX) $(LFLAGS) $<
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c lex.yy.c
rm -f lex.yy.c
mv lex.yy.o $@
.y.c:
$(YACC) $(YFLAGS) $<
mv y.tab.c $@
.l.c:
$(LEX) $(LFLAGS) $<
mv lex.yy.c $@
.c~.o:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $*.c
.f~.o:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.f
$(FC) $(FFLAGS) -c $*.f
.y~.o:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.y
$(YACC) $(YFLAGS) $*.y
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c y.tab.c
rm -f y.tab.c
mv y.tab.o $@
.l~.o:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.l
$(LEX) $(LFLAGS) $*.l
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c lex.yy.c
rm -f lex.yy.c
mv lex.yy.o $@
.y~.c:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.y
$(YACC) $(YFLAGS) $*.y
mv y.tab.c $@
.l~.c:
$(GET) $(GFLAGS) -p $< > $*.l
$(LEX) $(LFLAGS) $*.l
mv lex.yy.c $@
.c.a:
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $<
$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $*.o
rm -f $*.o
.f.a:
$(FC) -c $(FFLAGS) $<
$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $*.o
rm -f $*.o
When the
-q option is specified, the
make utility shall exit with
one of the following values:
- 0
- Successful completion.
- 1
- The target was not up-to-date.
- >1
- An error occurred.
When the
-q option is not specified, the
make utility shall exit
with one of the following values:
- 0
- Successful completion.
- >0
- An error occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
If there is a source file (such as
./source.c) and there are two SCCS
files corresponding to it (
./s.source.c and
./SCCS/s.source.c),
on XSI-conformant systems
make uses the SCCS file in the current
directory. However, users are advised to use the underlying SCCS utilities (
admin,
delta,
get, and so on) or the
sccs utility
for all source files in a given directory. If both forms are used for a given
source file, future developers are very likely to be confused.
It is incumbent upon portable makefiles to specify the
.POSIX special
target in order to guarantee that they are not affected by local extensions.
The
-k and
-S options are both present so that the relationship
between the command line, the
MAKEFLAGS variable, and the makefile can
be controlled precisely. If the
k flag is passed in
MAKEFLAGS
and a command is of the form:
then the default behavior is restored for the child
make.
When the
-n option is specified, it is always added to
MAKEFLAGS
. This allows a recursive
make -n target to be
used to see all of the action that would be taken to update
target.
Because of widespread historical practice, interpreting a
'#' number sign
inside a variable as the start of a comment has the unfortunate side effect of
making it impossible to place a number sign in a variable, thus forbidding
something like:
CFLAGS = "-D COMMENT_CHAR='#'"
Many historical
make utilities stop chaining together inference rules
when an intermediate target is nonexistent. For example, it might be possible
for a
make to determine that both
.y.c and
.c.o could be
used to convert a
.y to a
.o. Instead, in this case,
make
requires the use of a
.y.o rule.
The best way to provide portable makefiles is to include all of the rules needed
in the makefile itself. The rules provided use only features provided by other
parts of this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. The default rules
include rules for optional commands in this volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. Only rules pertaining to commands that are
provided are needed in an implementation's default set.
Macros used within other macros are evaluated when the new macro is used rather
than when the new macro is defined. Therefore:
MACRO = value1NEW = $(MACRO)
MACRO = value2
target:
echo $(NEW)
would produce
value2 and not
value1 since
NEW was not
expanded until it was needed in the
echo command line.
Some historical applications have been known to intermix
target_name and
macro=name operands on the command line, expecting that all of the
macros are processed before any of the targets are dealt with. Conforming
applications do not do this, although some backwards-compatibility support may
be included in some implementations.
The following characters in filenames may give trouble:
'=' ,
':'
,
'`' ,
'" , and
'@' . For inference rules, the
description of $< and $? seem similar. However, an example shows the minor
difference. In a makefile containing:
if
foo.h is newer than
foo.o, yet
foo.c is older than
foo.o, the built-in rule to make
foo.o from
foo.c is
used, with $< equal to
foo.c and $? equal to
foo.h. If
foo.c is also newer than
foo.o, $< is equal to
foo.c
and $? is equal to
foo.h foo.c.
- 1.
- The following command:
makes the first target found in the makefile.
- 2.
- The following command:
makes the target
junk.
- 3.
- The following makefile says that pgm depends on two
files, a.o and b.o, and that they in turn depend on their
corresponding source files ( a.c and b.c), and a common file
incl.h:
pgm: a.o b.o
c99 a.o b.o -o pgm
a.o: incl.h a.c
c99 -c a.c
b.o: incl.h b.c
c99 -c b.c
- 4.
- An example for making optimized .o files from
.c files is:
or:
- 5.
- The most common use of the archive interface follows. Here,
it is assumed that the source files are all C-language source:
lib: lib(file1.o) lib(file2.o) lib(file3.o)
@echo lib is now up-to-date
The
.c.a rule is used to make
file1.o,
file2.o, and
file3.o and insert them into
lib.
The treatment of escaped <newline>s throughout the makefile is historical
practice. For example, the inference rule:
works, and the macro:
f= bar baz\
biz
a:
echo ==$f==
echoes
"==bar baz biz==" .
If $? were:
/usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/unistd.h foo.h
then $(?D) would be:
/usr/include /usr/include .
and $(?F) would be:
- 6.
- The contents of the built-in rules can be viewed by
running:
make -p -f /dev/null 2>/dev/null
The
make utility described in this volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 is intended to provide the means for
changing portable source code into executables that can be run on an
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001-conforming system. It reflects the most
common features present in System V and BSD
makes.
Historically, the
make utility has been an especially fertile ground for
vendor and research organization-specific syntax modifications and extensions.
Examples include:
- *
- Syntax supporting parallel execution (such as from various
multi-processor vendors, GNU, and others)
- *
- Additional "operators" separating targets and
their prerequisites (System V, BSD, and others)
- *
- Specifying that command lines containing the strings
"${MAKE}" and "$(MAKE)" are executed
when the -n option is specified (GNU and System V)
- *
- Modifications of the meaning of internal macros when
referencing libraries (BSD and others)
- *
- Using a single instance of the shell for all of the command
lines of the target (BSD and others)
- *
- Allowing spaces as well as tabs to delimit command lines
(BSD)
- *
- Adding C preprocessor-style "include" and
"ifdef" constructs (System V, GNU, BSD, and others)
- *
- Remote execution of command lines (Sprite and others)
- *
- Specifying additional special targets (BSD, System V, and
most others)
Additionally, many vendors and research organizations have rethought the basic
concepts of
make, creating vastly extended, as well as completely new,
syntaxes. Each of these versions of
make fulfills the needs of a
different community of users; it is unreasonable for this volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 to require behavior that would be
incompatible (and probably inferior) to historical practice for such a
community.
In similar circumstances, when the industry has enough sufficiently incompatible
formats as to make them irreconcilable, this volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 has followed one or both of two courses of
action. Commands have been renamed (
cksum,
echo, and
pax) and/or command line options have been provided to select the
desired behavior (
grep,
od, and
pax).
Because the syntax specified for the
make utility is, by and large, a
subset of the syntaxes accepted by almost all versions of
make, it was
decided that it would be counter-productive to change the name. And since the
makefile itself is a basic unit of portability, it would not be completely
effective to reserve a new option letter, such as
make -P, to
achieve the portable behavior. Therefore, the special target
.POSIX was
added to the makefile, allowing users to specify "standard"