Question

I am trying to generate a make file in Linux that is fairly dynamic and will take get all the files from the /src directory of a certain type. Essentially the output of ls *.type I seem to be having difficulties in doing this. Below is what I currently have but it does not seem to work. Hopefully someone can help me out. Thanks!

JIL_B_TMPL            : sh = ls *.type
JIL_LIST        =       $(JIL_B_TMPL)

I will also add this is not for compiling a C program.

Answer 1

To capture the output of a shell command in a makefile, you can do:

JIL_B_TMPL := $(shell ls *.type)
JIL_LIST   := $(JIL_B_TMPL)

This is of course the same as writing:

JIL_LIST   := $(shell ls *.type)

This works with GNU make, but since you mention Linux, I suppose you’re using that.