Linux Development Platform: Configuring, Using, and Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment, The

4.4. Working with Multiple Makefiles and Directories

Until now we have used simple makefiles to build projects or targets. We used only one makefile in the project and all of the source files were present in the same directory. In real-life software development projects, we have multiple directories containing different parts of a software product. For example, one directory may contain all library files, another header files and a third one common files used by different parts. Similarly every part of the software project may have its own subdirectory.

This section deals with the same source files and targets that we used earlier in this chapter. The project contains three targets to be built. These targets are ftp, tftp and dnsresolver. We ...