Build system tools: make-makefile

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Build system tools: make-makefile

The build process consists of several steps, one of which is the dynamic generation of makefiles – the creation of recipes that control how and when elements of firefox and friends are generated.  The tool currently used for generation is make-makefile, a utility written way back in the days of Netscape (circa 1999).  Intent for this post and a few more that will follow will be to document the tool and usage.

Program and config
* build/autoconf/make-makefile
* build/autoconf/makemakefile.pm
* build/autoconf/make-makefile.excl

make-makefile will be automatically invoked while building whenever a Makefile does not exist beneath the object directory or a template (Makefile.in) is newer than a previously generated Makefile.

 

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  1. Pingback: Build system tools: make-makefile, file generation | Joey Armstrong's blog

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