Managing Projects with GNU Make by Robert Mecklenburg

Author:Robert Mecklenburg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: COMPUTERS / Programming / General
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2009-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Working with Nonportable Tools

As noted previously, one alternative to writing makefiles to the least common denominator is to adopt some standard tools. Of course, the goal is to make sure the standard tools are at least as portable as the application you are building. The obvious choice for portable tools are programs from the GNU project, but portable tools come from a wide variety of sources. Perl and Python are two other tools that come to mind.

In the absence of portable tools, encapsulating nonportable tools in make functions can sometimes do just as well. For instance, to support a variety of compilers for Enterprise JavaBeans (each of which has a slightly different invocation syntax), we can write a basic function to compile an EJB jar and parameterize it to allow one to plug in different compilers.

EJB_TMP_JAR = $(TMPDIR)/temp.jar

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