Makefile: realpath function on windows for gnu toolchain (yagarto) - gcc

I am trying to write some makefiles on windows for arm gnu toolchain. (yagarto.de)
But for
MY_LIBC_PATH = $(realpath D:/temp//_latest//../)
I get
D:/privat/stm32/eclipse-juno_workspace/yagarto_test/D:/temp
My goal is to get only second part(D:/temp), the first part(D:/privat/stm32/eclipse-juno_workspace/yagarto_test/) is my working directory..
I supose realpath is a make function in this case...
Any idea how to get only D:/temp?

This is a known problem in GNU make. For example, see this post in the make-w32 list. That post also proposes a workaround.

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Makefile - Deduce targets from sources (on iSeries system)

On an IBM i system, using PASE (AIX emulator), i try to compile RPG sources using a makefile.
I have RPG sources and try to build a PGM program.
Every single source will be compile in a distinct PGM.
Here is the syntax i tried first
VPATH=.
SYSTEM=system -iv
CRTRPGMOD=CRTRPGMOD
BIN_LIB=MR_CH
CURRENT_PATH=/currentPath #${PWD} doesn't work
#With this line active, it works
SRC_RPGLE = src1.rpgle src2.rpgle
#With this line active, it doesn't work
#SRC_RPGLE = $(shell echo *.rpgle) #Should list every sources i want to compile
TARGETS = $(SRC_RPGLE:.rpgle=.rpgleMod) #Should list every program i want to build
.SUFFIXES: .rpgle .rpgleMod
.rpgle.rpgleMod:
$(SYSTEM) "$(CRTRPGMOD) MODULE($(BIN_LIB)/$(*F)) SRCSTMF('$(CURRENT_PATH)/$<')" > $(*F)_1_crtrpgmod.log
ln -fs $(*F).rpgMod
all: $(TARGETS)
I tried to apply GNU shell syntax using AIX make command
Any suggestions ?
I'm not familiar with the AIX implementation of make but assuming that the linked man page is all there is to it, then it looks like a bare-bones implementation of POSIX make (for an older POSIX spec).
Therefore, the only way to do what you want (expand a list of files) is to use recursion, so that you get access to the shell, like this:
SYSTEM=system -iv
CRTRPGMOD=CRTRPGMOD
BIN_LIB=MR_CH
CURRENT_PATH=/currentPath
CURRENT_PATH=/home/CHARLES/Projets/MRSRC/tmp
recurse:
$(MAKE) all SRC_RPGLE="`echo *.rpgle`"
TARGETS = $(SRC_RPGLE:.rpgle=.rpgleMod)
.SUFFIXES: .rpgle .rpgleMod
.rpgle.rpgleMod:
$(SYSTEM) "$(CRTRPGMOD) MODULE($(BIN_LIB)/$(*F)) SRCSTMF('$(CURRENT_PATH)/$<')" > $(*F)_1_crtrpgmod.log
ln -fs $(*F).rpgMod
all: $(TARGETS)
The recurse rule MUST be the first target in the makefile. Also this won't help if you want to run other targets like make foobar; it will only help you run all properly.
Alternatively you can obtain GNU make and build it for your system, and use that. In the end that might be a more straightforward approach.

Autoreconf stops with "non-POSIX variable name"

I created a Makefile.in where I read the content out of a file and pass it to CFLAGS. Calling ./configure ... the Makefile will be generated an all works well.
Makefile.in:
...
MY_REVISION_FILE=my-revision.txt
MY_REVISION=$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))
AM_CFLAGS = -I$(EXTRAS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir) -DMY_REVISION=$(MY_REVISION)
...
The problem arises once I moved the Makefile.in code into Makefile.am to allow the auto generation of Makefile.in. There calling autoreconf -i --force stops with the following error:
server/Makefile.am:9: cat $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
server/Makefile.am:9: (probably a GNU make extension)
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
This problem hunts me now since quite some time. I searched everywhere but did not find anything that could help me finding a solution for that. In short, the only thing I need is a way to get an uninterpreted text such as "$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))" copied from Makefile.am to Makefile.in
Any idea?
Thanks,
Oliver
As it says, the problem is you're using a GNUism in your Makefile.am, when it's only meant to contain portable Makefile code.
Either rewrite your code so it's portable (you should use AM_CPPFLAGS because you're passing flags to the preprocessor, not the compiler):
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(EXTRAS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir) -DMY_REVISION=`cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE)`
If you don't want to invoke cat on every compile, you could find the value in configure.ac and either AC_SUBST it into Makefile or AC_DEFINE it so it goes into config.h.
Or if you want to be non-portable (ಠ_ಠ), you can take -Werror out of your AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE or AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, or add -Wno-portability.
After long testing back and forth I decided to use AC_SUBST.
My solution might not be the cleanest but it works for me.
In configure.ac I added the following line
AC_SUBST([DOLLAR_SIGN],[$])
In the Makefile.am I changed my previous line into
MY_REVISION=#DOLLAR_SIGN#(shell cat $(SRC_DIR)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))
And it works.
Again, thanks for your help.

Should I name "makefile" or "Makefile"?

Although both names will do the job, what is the correct name for makefiles?
GNU `make' homepage uses Makefile, and I guess it is the good way to name it. Any reasons for typing the front M in upper case ?
What Name to Give Your Makefile chapter of GNU Make manual clarifies it:
By default, when make looks for the makefile, it tries the following names, in order: GNUmakefile, makefile and Makefile. Normally you should call your makefile either makefile or Makefile. (We recommend Makefile because it appears prominently near the beginning of a directory listing, right near other important files such as README.) The first name checked, GNUmakefile, is not recommended for most makefiles. You should use this name if you have a makefile that is specific to GNU make, and will not be understood by other versions of make. Other make programs look for makefile and Makefile, but not GNUmakefile.
I think that Makefile is displayed at the almost top of the list rather than makefile when using the ls command.
it is not only the reason that it appears prominently near the beginning of a directory listing, but also that it would cause a compile error when you using “makefile” to replace “Makefile”。 you could try to test in the helloworld case of Linux device driver..

No rule to make target `/Makefile', needed by `Makefile'

I'm trying to 'make' using a pretty simple makefile. My makefile is named 'Makefile' so I'm simply using the command 'make'.
I get this strange error:
make: *** No rule to make target `/Makefile', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.
If, however, I use
make -f "full-path-to-makefile" it actually does run (with odd consequences...). I should say that I'm running all this from the directory where the Makefile lies, of course.
I'm working on Mac OSX, using tcsh.
Edit:
I'm working in the LLVM framework, trying to compile a pass function and this is the associated makefile:
LEVEL = ../../../
LIBRARYNAME = FunctionName
LOADABLE_MODULE = 1
include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.common
Any ideas will be appreciated :)
I had the same problem trying to write a new pass for LLVM i followed these instructions trying to make a HelloB (as Hello already exsited) http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html#quickstart
What i has to do was do a ./configure again then make from the base directory.
I'll go out on a limb: you have an extra slash. Try omitting the final slash in $(LEVEL).
I found the answer, sort of:
The problem was with the installation process of LLVM. It seems that if you do the installation in one order instead of another it can lead to this error. It doesn't make any sense to me, but after I installed it properly everything compiles great (same code, same Makefile, same make program).
I don't really know why this happened, but I know how to fix it :)
What you want to do is ./configure again then make from the base directory (contrary to what is stated in the instructions on the web-site). That worked for me.
BTW - I got the same results running on Ubuntu (with the same fix).
Just to add some information here (since this is the first hit that comes up on Google when looking for the error) - I had the same problem which suddenly popped up on a (previously working) LLVM setup on OSX, and traced it back to the behavior of the realpath command in make.
Specifically, what was happening was that I had a directory called "LLVM/llvm-2.9-build", but for some reason the attempt to resolve PROJECT_OBJ_ROOT at the top of Makefile.config would decide that this directory was in fact called "llvm/llvm-2.9-build". Since OSX is case-insensitive by default, this doesn't cause an immediate problem, except that subsequently LLVM_SRC_ROOT would be set to "LLVM/llvm-2.9-build". This then meant that the creation of PROJ_SRC_DIR using patsubst to replace the object directory would result in a non-existent path (as the unmatched case means that no pattern replace occurs), which in turn would get resolved to / by realpath.
With PROJ_SRC_DIR set to /, this results in the makefile copy rule in Makefile.rules deciding that the source makefile is at $(PROJ_SRC_DIR)/Makefile (ie /Makefile), and the error message described.
It seems that it is only the built-in implementation of realpath in Make (GNU Make 3.81 in my case) that has this behaviour, as forcibly using the macro version of realpath from the top of Makefile.config fixes the problem. However, this isn't a good long-term fix, as you'd have to manually patch every one of the LLVM makefiles.
In the end, I couldn't see where realpath would be getting the lower-case "llvm" from, but figured it was probably an artifact somehow of some caching of the name from a point in time when I'd referenced the directory using its lower-case name. Hence I tried going to that directory and mv-ing it to a completely different name, and then back to "LLVM" before going in and building again, and that seems to have solved the problem.
I hope that's of some use to anyone else who comes across this particular weirdness!
It's not a complete answer, but what you are seeing is gmake not finding the Makefile it is told to include, and thus it is trying to remake it and failing because it can't find a recipe for it either.
However, the Makefile snippet you posted does not produce the error message you are seeing, so I think the problem is inside the Makefile.common file. Look for include statements which reference a $(some variable expansion)/Makefile and work backwards from there. You can also try to run gmake with the -d option and follow the processing based on the output.
Since your include line reads:
include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.common
it is puzzling that you are not getting an error about /Makefile.common. If you were, then I'd suggest that maybe you have a trailing blank after the definition of LEVEL.
Could there be a line in Makefile.common that itself includes $(SOMEMACRO)/Makefile and you have not set the value of SOMEMACRO?
here's my fixes for this issue: (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24887#issuecomment-99391849)
update src/llvm/Makefile.config.in before running ./configure
or update x86_64-apple-darwin/llvm/Makefile.config before make
line 59:
PROJ_SRC_DIR := $(LLVM_SRC_ROOT)$(patsubst $(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)%,%,$(PROJ_OBJ_DIR))
update to
PROJ_SRC_DIR := $(patsubst $(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)%,$(LLVM_SRC_ROOT)%,$(PROJ_OBJ_DIR))
line 86:
PROJ_SRC_DIR := $(call realpath, $(PROJ_SRC_ROOT)/$(patsubst $(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)%,%,$(PROJ_OBJ_DIR)))
update to
PROJ_SRC_DIR := $(call realpath, $(patsubst $(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)%,$(PROJ_SRC_ROOT)%,$(PROJ_OBJ_DIR)))

make - specifying target name to make from command line

I am looking at C makefile, and I have a question.
I know that 'make a' will make the target a, which is supposed to be defined in the makefile.
I want to know whether the target name itself can be supplied as an argument to make.
i.e. this is what I want to do:
$(target_name) is the name supplied to command 'make'. For example, 'make foo'.
and in the makefile,
$(target_name) = dependencies
command
I am not sure whether this is possible... could not find anything in the make manual too.
If anyone can help me with this, it'll be awesome.
Thanks,
Everything you are asking about is what make does by default - there is no need to write any special code in the makefile to do this. You seem rather confused about make (it is not particularly C related, for example). The best guide to it is the GNU Make Manual, which is not only a manual but a pretty good tutorial.
I'm kind of new to Makefiles but it seems you don't pass values in Makefile like that. If the following is your Makefile
# Makefile
TARGET?=something
$(TARGET):
echo $(TARGET)
You can pass parameters in by calling make like this in the terminal
$ TARGET='ABCDEF' make

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