January 18, 2011 | Making Sense of 'make' | Back Next |
[4exercise]
Makefile variables are also known as: 'macros'
PACKAGE = reduce2text SOURCE = file.html RESULT = file.txt VERSION = ` date +"%Y%m%d" ` ARCHIVENAME = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) ARCHIVE = $(ARCHIVENAME).tar.gz
We can rewrite our 'make' statements using these variables.
html2text: $(SOURCE) lynx -dump $(SOURCE) > $(RESULT)
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