Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Johnson, Andrew N." <[email protected]> · Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:06:00 +0000

Hi Martin,

On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Konrad, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> how can I enforce a certain build order in the top-level Makefile of an 
> IOC? I need it to be
> 
> 1. subdirectory *App (also builds a data conversion tool)
> 2. convert a data file in the $(TOP) directory (using the data 
> conversion tool)
> 3. subdirectory doc (uses the converted data file to generate a plot)
> 
> See the attached file for my Makefile as it is now. The behavior I see 
> now is 1 -> 3 -> 2.

Why do you have to run the conversion tool from the top level Makefile? I would personally try to avoid mixing up rules from different build areas, so would either add a new directory to run the tool in, run it in the directory it was built in, or in the docs directory.

If you add a new directory, use xxx_DEPEND_DIRS variables to set dependencies between directories. For example, if bApp needs aApp to have been built first, you would set bApp_DEPEND_DIRS = aApp.

HTH,

- Andrew

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System