Re: Recurse directories

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Shawn Minto <address@hidden> writes:

  sm> I am trying to write a makefile to build a website.  Currently, it
  sm> is working, but since I have many different directories (and they
  sm> are very dynamic) I need to keep updating the makefile.  For each
  sm> directory I am using, I have something that looks like the
  sm> following:

  sm> dir1 = $(wildcard /basedir/dir/*.*)

  sm> I would like some way that I could just specify the basedir and it
  sm> will do a search and find all of the files that I need

You'll have to use find (for example).  There is no builtin
functionality in GNU make that will do this for you.

  dirlist := $(shell find /basedir/dir -name '*.*' -print)

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