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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" .Dd March 19, 1994 .Dt MAKE 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm make .Nd maintain program dependencies .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm "" .Op Fl BeikNnqrstW .Bk -words .Op Fl D Ar variable .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl d Ar flags .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl f Ar makefile .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl I Ar directory .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl j Ar max_jobs .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl J Ar private .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl m Ar directory .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl T Ar file .Ek .Bk -words .Op Fl V Ar variable .Ek .Op Ar variable=value .Bk -words .Op Ar target ... .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a program designed to simplify the maintenance of other programs. Its input is a list of specifications as to the files upon which programs and other files depend. If the file .Ql Pa makefile exists, it is read for this list of specifications. If it does not exist, the file .Ql Pa Makefile is read. If the file .Ql Pa .depend exists, it is read (see .Xr mkdep 1) . .Pp This manual page is intended as a reference document only. For a more thorough description of .Nm and makefiles, please refer to .%T "Make \- A Tutorial" . .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl B Try to be backwards compatible by executing a single shell per command and by executing the commands to make the sources of a dependency line in sequence. .It Fl D Ar variable Define .Ar variable to be 1, in the global context. .It Fl d Ar flags Turn on debugging, and specify which portions of .Nm are to print debugging information. .Ar Flags is one or more of the following: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ar A Print all possible debugging information; equivalent to specifying all of the debugging flags. .It Ar a Print debugging information about archive searching and caching. .It Ar c Print debugging information about conditional evaluation. .It Ar d Print debugging information about directory searching and caching. .It Ar "g1" Print the input graph before making anything. .It Ar "g2" Print the input graph after making everything, or before exiting on error. .It Ar j Print debugging information about running multiple shells. .It Ar m Print debugging information about making targets, including modification dates. .It Ar s Print debugging information about suffix-transformation rules. .It Ar t Print debugging information about target list maintenance. .It Ar v Print debugging information about variable assignment. .It Ar x Run shell commands with .Fl x so the actual commands are printed as they are executed. .El .It Fl e Specify that environmental variables override macro assignments within makefiles. .It Fl f Ar makefile Specify a makefile to read instead of the default .Ql Pa makefile and If .Ar makefile is .Ql Fl , standard input is read. Multiple makefile's may be specified, and are read in the order specified. .It Fl I Ar directory Specify a directory in which to search for makefiles and included makefiles. The system makefile directory (or directories, see the .Fl m option) is automatically included as part of this list. .It Fl i Ignore non-zero exit of shell commands in the makefile. Equivalent to specifying .Ql Fl before each command line in the makefile. .It Fl J Ar private This option should .Em not be specified by the user. .Pp When the .Ar j option is in use in a recursive build, this option is passed by a make to child makes to allow all the make processes in the build to cooperate to avoid overloading the system. .It Fl j Ar max_jobs Specify the maximum number of jobs that .Nm may have running at any one time. Turns compatibility mode off, unless the .Ar B flag is also specified. .It Fl k Continue processing after errors are encountered, but only on those targets that do not depend on the target whose creation caused the error. .It Fl m Ar directory Specify a directory in which to search for sys.mk and makefiles included via the <...> style. Multiple directories can be added to form a search path. This path will override the default system include path: /usr/share/mk. Furthermore the system include path will be appended to the search path used for "..."-style inclusions (see the .Fl I option). .It Fl n Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually execute them unless the target depends on the .MAKE special source (see below) .It Fl N Display the commands which would have been executed, but do not actually execute any of them; useful for debugging top-level makefiles without descending into subdirectories. .It Fl q Do not execute any commands, but exit 0 if the specified targets are up-to-date and 1, otherwise. .It Fl r Do not use the built-in rules specified in the system makefile. .It Fl s Do not echo any commands as they are executed. Equivalent to specifying .Ql Ic @ before each command line in the makefile. .It Fl T Ar tracefile When used with the .Fl j flag, append a trace record to .Ar tracefile for each job started and completed. .It Fl t Rather than re-building a target as specified in the makefile, create it or update its modification time to make it appear up-to-date. .It Fl V Ar variable Print .Nm "" Ns 's idea of the value of .Ar variable , in the global context. Do not build any targets. Multiple instances of this option may be specified; the variables will be printed one per line, with a blank line for each null or undefined variable. .It Fl W Treat any warnings during makefile parsing as errors. .It Ar variable=value Set the value of the variable .Ar variable to .Ar value . .El .Pp There are seven different types of lines in a makefile: file dependency specifications, shell commands, variable assignments, include statements, conditional directives, for loops, and comments. .Pp In general, lines may be continued from one line to the next by ending them with a backslash .Pq Ql \e . The trailing newline character and initial whitespace on the following line are compressed into a single space. .Sh FILE DEPENDENCY SPECIFICATIONS Dependency lines consist of one or more targets, an operator, and zero or more sources. This creates a relationship where the targets ``depend'' on the sources and are usually created from them. The exact relationship between the target and the source is determined by the operator that separates them. The three operators are as follows: .Bl -tag -width flag .It Ic \&: A target is considered out-of-date if its modification time is less than those of any of its sources. Sources for a target accumulate over dependency lines when this operator is used. The target is removed if .Nm is interrupted. .It Ic \&! Targets are always re-created, but not until all sources have been examined and re-created as necessary. Sources for a target accumulate over dependency lines when this operator is used. The target is removed if .Nm is interrupted. .It Ic \&:: If no sources are specified, the target is always re-created. Otherwise, a target is considered out-of-date if any of its sources has been modified more recently than the target. Sources for a target do not accumulate over dependency lines when this operator is used. The target will not be removed if .Nm is interrupted. .El .Pp Targets and sources may contain the shell wildcard values .Ql ? , .Ql * , .Ql [] and .Ql {} . The values .Ql ? , .Ql * and .Ql [] may only be used as part of the final component of the target or source, and must be used to describe existing files. The value .Ql {} need not necessarily be used to describe existing files. Expansion is in directory order, not alphabetically as done in the shell. .Sh SHELL COMMANDS Each target may have associated with it a series of shell commands, normally used to create the target. Each of the commands in this script .Em must be preceded by a tab. While any target may appear on a dependency line, only one of these dependencies may be followed by a creation script, unless the .Ql Ic :: operator is used. .Pp If the first or first two characters of the command line are .Ql Ic @ and/or .Ql Ic \- , the command is treated specially. A .Ql Ic @ causes the command not to be echoed before it is executed. A .Ql Ic \- causes any non-zero exit status of the command line to be ignored. .Sh VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS Variables in make are much like variables in the shell, and, by tradition, consist of all upper-case letters. The five operators that can be used to assign values to variables are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic \&= Assign the value to the variable. Any previous value is overridden. .It Ic \&+= Append the value to the current value of the variable. .It Ic \&?= Assign the value to the variable if it is not already defined. .It Ic \&:= Assign with expansion, i.e. expand the value before assigning it to the variable. Normally, expansion is not done until the variable is referenced. .It Ic \&!= Expand the value and pass it to the shell for execution and assign the result to the variable. Any newlines in the result are replaced with spaces. .El .Pp Any white-space before the assigned .Ar value is removed; if the value is being appended, a single space is inserted between the previous contents of the variable and the appended value. .Pp Variables are expanded by surrounding the variable name with either curly braces .Pq Ql {} or parentheses .Pq Ql () and preceding it with a dollar sign .Pq Ql \&$ . If the variable name contains only a single letter, the surrounding braces or parentheses are not required. This shorter form is not recommended. .Pp Variable substitution occurs at two distinct times, depending on where the variable is being used. Variables in dependency lines are expanded as the line is read. Variables in shell commands are expanded when the shell command is executed. .Pp The four different classes of variables (in order of increasing precedence) are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Environment variables Variables defined as part of .Nm "" Ns 's environment. .It Global variables Variables defined in the makefile or in included makefiles. .It Command line variables Variables defined as part of the command line. .It Local variables Variables that are defined specific to a certain target. The seven local variables are as follows: .Bl -tag -width ".ARCHIVE" .It Va .ALLSRC The list of all sources for this target; also known as .Ql Va \&> . .It Va .ARCHIVE The name of the archive file. .It Va .IMPSRC The name/path of the source from which the target is to be transformed (the ``implied'' source); also known as .Ql Va \&< . .It Va .MEMBER The name of the archive member. .It Va .OODATE The list of sources for this target that were deemed out-of-date; also known as .Ql Va \&? . .It Va .PREFIX The file prefix of the file, containing only the file portion, no suffix or preceding directory components; also known as .Ql Va * . .It Va .TARGET The name of the target; also known as .Ql Va @ . .El .Pp The shorter forms .Ql Va @ , .Ql Va ? , .Ql Va \&> and .Ql Va * are permitted for backward compatibility with historical makefiles and are not recommended. The six variables .Ql Va "@F" , .Ql Va "@D" , .Ql Va "