Re: using a shell script to compile your C programs

pereges said:

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> 
> I would like to use this for my project.

It's rather primitive, but yes, it works. Feel free.

> Can you please tell me what
> is the purpose behind the functions makeclean and makeinstall ?

Sometimes things can get a little out of kilter - for example, your system

clock might be re-set for some reason (e.g. daylight savings), and the 
make system gets a bit confused as to what dependencies need to be 
re-compiled. Or maybe a library dependency has been updated and you need 
to force a complete re-link. Or whatever. By typing

make clean

you delete all the object files and the executable, so that a subsequent 
make will do a complete re-build. It's not often necessary, but it's 
sometimes useful.

Once you're happy that a program is complete, you may well wish to copy it

to a directory that is in your path.

make install

is intended to do that. (On some systems, you may need to get root access 
before doing a make install.)


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