Re: Generic and platform-specific Makefiles

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From: Gisle Vanem
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:52

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"Alex Vinokur" <alexvn@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> For instance, I have some program.
>
> If I compile the program on Cygwin (Windows 2000)
>   the Makefile must contain the following line :
> -------------------------
> LIBS          = -lwsock32
> -------------------------
>
> If I compile the program on Linux
>   the Makefile must not contain that line.
>
>
> What ways should be used to create such a Makefile? :
> * generic Makefile for all platforms?
> * main Makefile including platform-specific definitions?
> * something else?
>
> What techniques exist to do that?

You can trust unname on Linux to exist and include "linux".
On Cygwin if it exist, it should include "Windows....". So
this could work:

ifeq ($(findstring Windows, $(shell uname)), Windows)
  LIBS += -lwsock32
endif

--gv

There are only 10 types of people in this world...
those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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