Exercise 28. Intermediate Makefiles
In the next three exercises you’ll create a skeleton project directory to use in building your C programs later. This skeleton directory will be used for the rest of the book. In this exercise, I’ll cover just the Makefile so you can understand it.
The purpose of this structure is to make it easy to build medium-sized programs without having to resort to configure tools. If done right, you can get very far with just GNU make and some small shell scripts.
The Basic Project Structure
The first thing to do is make a c-skeleton directory, and then put a set of basic files and directories in it that many projects have. Here’s my starter:
Exercise 28 Session
$ mkdir c-skeleton $
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