RE: Help: I'm lost in Makefile wasteland

[Leeuwesteijn, Joost]

> I have a build system that is a legacy holdover from the 
> forgotten mists of time (nobody at the company has any idea 
> how it all works).

Been there, done that... :-) I ended up rewriting it all to GNU make.
Works perfectly now.

> Instead of going through the hundred or so nested directories 
> and makefiles I decided to let the old packages build 
> normally and simply add a new rule to the top level Makefile 
> to build RPM's.
> [...]
> (rpmbuild does a lot of stuff but the main thing 
> is that it builds the package from source. ie it calls make 
> during its execution). 

I can't help you with the error, sorry. Someone else on this list
probably will 'cause people are very helpful in here I found out.

But when I read this, I was thinking it might be possible to build it
the normal way and then somehow convert the existing deliverables to an
RPM using a separate target, or maybe makefile even? Unpack the Java
stuff in a temp directory and then re-package them to RPM. Saves you a
second build from source. Would that be an option?

Just my EUR 0.02...

--
Joost Leeuwesteijn


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