Re: makefiles

Thanks all for input. I will look on those lines.....




Thanks,
Hemanth

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Kirk Augustin <[email protected]>wrote:

> My opinion is that makefiles are too obscure because of the concept of
> using abstract rules.
> I think any scripting language with explicit operations, such as Perl,
> JavaScript, or PHP would be far better.
> If you are just interested Linux installation, then perhaps RPM would be
> all you want to look at:
> http://rpm.org/wiki/
>
> Kirk & Trish Augustin
> 11821 NW McNamee Rd
> Portland, OR 97231
>
>
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> *From:* kamal jeera <[email protected]>
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Tue, July 27, 2010 12:08:38 PM
> *Subject:* makefiles
>
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to know more about makefiles.  So far I just used them to
> compile providers.
>
> what else we can do with make files?
> Can we use them to install providers? If so, please point me to any reading
> materials/examples you might know of
>
> The idea behind my quesiton is,  we will have bunch of providers (.so)
> files that would like to install at a particular directory path [ we need to
> create directories as well] on client sites.
>
> Thanks.
>