Question

I am writing Makefile dist and install target. There are many files to copy. So i want to know whether gnu make support parameter like shell’.

In makefile, I want to something achieve this below.

cp src/server/{IPinfo_server, IPinfo_server.conf} IPinfo/server

Now i write like this below in makefile.

cp src/server/IPinfo_server IPinfo/server
cp src/server/IPinfo_server.conf IPinfo/server

Or may be i should write it in shell script?

PS: I tried to google it. But i don’t know how to describe the question. 🙁

PS1: The problem is there should not space in “IPinfo_server, IPinfo_server.conf”

Answer 1

Yes, it does.

It’s easy to test out.

$ cat GNUmakefile

all: 
    @echo foo{1,2}

$ gmake
foo1 foo2

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

In case it doesn’t work for you, try explicitly adding SHELL = /bin/bash to your GNUMakefile.