make files

make files

[Hans Hagen]

Hi, 

Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
With: 

tex : blabla.tex 
      texexec --pdf blabla 

and 

make tex 

i get 'no rule to make target' so i miss a point there,  

Hans
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Re: make files

[Marc van Dongen]

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Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
: With: 
: 
: tex : blabla.tex 
:       texexec --pdf blabla 
: make tex 
: 
: i get 'no rule to make target' so i miss a point there,  

Is there a file called blabla.tex in the
current directory. If there isn't this makes
sense.

Find attached part of a LaTeX Makefile I use to compile
my latex with.

Regards,

Marc van Dongen

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.SUFFIXES : # nullify default suffix rules
.SUFFIXES : .pdf .tex .ps .dvi

.dvi.ps:
	@dvips -o $*.ps $*.dvi

.tex.ps:
	@lama $*.dvi
	@dvips -o $*.ps $*.dvi

.tex.pdf:
	@pdflatex $<

.tex.dvi:
	@latex $*.tex;                                             \
	if grep 'LaTeX Warning: Citation .* undefined' $*.log;     \
	then                                                       \
	  bibtex $*;                                               \
	  latex $*.tex;                                            \
	fi;                                                        \
	if grep 'LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed' $*.log; \
	then                                                       \
	  latex $*.tex;                                            \
	fi;                                                        \
	printf "\a\a\a"

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Re: make files

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
> With:
>
> tex : blabla.tex
>       texexec --pdf blabla
>
>
> and
>

If you use gnu make the syntax is very critical:

tex: blabla.tex
	texexec --pdf

The colon (:) *must* follow the target (e.g. no spaces), and the execution
line(s) must be preceeded by a tab (Ctrl+I, ASCII 9) character.

gilbert.

Re: make files

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
> With:
> 
> tex : blabla.tex

> i get 'no rule to make target' so i miss a point there,

Ehm .. je hebt een rule gedefinieerd voor 'tex ' ? :-)
(het kan mijn make niet schelen trouwens, dus misschien is het toch wat
anders)

-- 
groeten,

Taco

Re: make files

[Marc van Dongen]

Taco Hoekwater (taco@elvenkind.com) wrote:

: Ehm .. je hebt een rule gedefinieerd voor 'tex ' ? :-)
: (het kan mijn make niet schelen trouwens, dus misschien is het toch wat
: anders)

This is well possible. It is quite usefull e.g.
if you want to always cary out something. E.g.

$ cat Makefile
groetjes:
	@echo Goeiesmorgens!
$ make groetjes
Goeiesmorgens!
$ 

Regards,

Marc
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Re: make files

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:00 AM 6/8/01 +0200, Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen wrote:

>The colon (:) *must* follow the target (e.g. no spaces), and the execution
>line(s) must be preceeded by a tab (Ctrl+I, ASCII 9) character.

That works, is this windows specific or does the linux make also need that
<tab> char? [i hate tabs]

thanks for all replys, it now works, 

Hans
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Re: make files

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: >The colon (:) *must* follow the target (e.g. no spaces), and the execution
: >line(s) must be preceeded by a tab (Ctrl+I, ASCII 9) character.
:  
: That works, is this windows specific or does the linux make also need that
: <tab> char? [i hate tabs]

You always need the tabs. I also hate them and
wonder where they originate from.

On my machine there is no need to put the colon
immediately after the target.

Regards,

Marc

Re: make files

[David Antos]

> >The colon (:) *must* follow the target (e.g. no spaces), and the execution
> >line(s) must be preceeded by a tab (Ctrl+I, ASCII 9) character.
>  
> That works, is this windows specific or does the linux make also need that
> <tab> char? [i hate tabs]
> 
The <tab> syntax is make-specific. It is very very supid. The GNU make
only adds some types of rules to ``standard'' make (e.g., some kind of
`wildcards', more comfortable ways to handle filenames). Nevertheless
the <tab> syntax will survive everything.

				D.A.

P.S.: Some `too-inteligent' text editors convert your tabs into spaces
(and the user doesn't know that option is set). If your Makefile doesn't 
want to work and there is no reason why, check this.
It happened to me...

Re: make files

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:35 AM 6/9/01 +0200, David Antos wrote:

>P.S.: Some `too-inteligent' text editors convert your tabs into spaces
>(and the user doesn't know that option is set). If your Makefile doesn't 
>want to work and there is no reason why, check this.
>It happened to me...

To be honest, our (home brew) editor does not even have a tab since i use
tab to jump to the next cell pos in table like situations [quite handy btw,
since any sentence can be a table]. So i have to enter the ascii value -) 

Hans 
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Re: make files

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen]

> >
> The <tab> syntax is make-specific. It is very very supid. The GNU make
> only adds some types of rules to ``standard'' make (e.g., some kind of
> `wildcards', more comfortable ways to handle filenames). Nevertheless
> the <tab> syntax will survive everything.

Borland make used to be less restrictive, I hate tabs too.
>
> 				D.A.
>
> P.S.: Some `too-inteligent' text editors convert your tabs into spaces
> (and the user doesn't know that option is set). If your Makefile doesn't
> want to work and there is no reason why, check this.
> It happened to me...

There is only one stupid way to solve this: use vi. It is great, and greatly
impossible (I still hate it, and love it).

Gilbert.

Re: make files

[Marc van Dongen]

Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen (gilbert@panter.soci.aau.dk) wrote:

: There is only one stupid way to solve this: use vi. It is great, and greatly
: impossible (I still hate it, and love it).

Have a look at vim. It's a vi clone with *lots* of
goodies. Me being a true vi hard-liner moved to
vim last year and will never move back again.

http://www.moolenaar.net/vim.html

Regards,

Marc van Dongen

Re: make files

[Berend de Boer]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
> With: 
> 
> tex : blabla.tex 
>       texexec --pdf blabla 
> 
> 
> and 
> 
> make tex 
> 
> i get 'no rule to make target' so i miss a point there,  

1. tabs are necessary for commands for at least GNU make.

2. spaces before/after colon are not really necessary.

3. This example defines a .tex rule:

-----------
.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .pdf .tex

all: blabla.tex

.tex.pdf:
        texexec --pdf $<
----------

You need GNU make for this. For Windows download Cygwin. You have to
anyway if you do more stuff with makefiles.

Complete GNU make manual:

        http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/index.html

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: make files

[Uwe Koloska]

Hi Hans,

Am Freitag,  8. Juni 2001 10:31 hast du geschrieben:
> Hi,
>
> Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
> With:
>
> tex : blabla.tex
>       texexec --pdf blabla

Here a <TAB> ist needed before the command(s).  That is general make syntax 
(all makes on all plattforms).

Without the <TAB> there is no command to make target "tex" and thus the 
make prompted out:

> and
>
> make tex
>
> i get 'no rule to make target' so i miss a point there,

To write a proper makefile is rocket science -- if you want to deserve 
special purposes.  But if you have only simple needs the following 
introduction should be enough.

A makefile can have arbitrary names, but make considers the following 
filenames without explicitly naming it on the make commandline (in this 
order):

  GNUmakefile (only GNU make)
  makefile
  Makefile

A simple make rule have a
- target that is to be build
- some prerequisites that the target depend on
- some commands that are used to build the target

So what your rule from above really means:

Hey make, build me target "tex", check it's dependencies from blabla.tex 
and execute the command "texexec --pdf blabla".

What you really wanted is:

blabla.pdf: blabla.tex
[TAB] texexec --pdf blabla
[TAB] any other command

Now, what does it mean: check the dependencies of the target?  Simply said, 
make looks wether one of the dependencies (or prerequisites as the make 
manual names them) is newer than the target.  So, if you modified the 
source blabla.tex it will be rebuild.  If you haven't change anything the 
target is current and make doesn't need to do anything.

If your main source blabla.tex includes other files (pictures, 
environments, etc.) you can name them all as dependencies and make check's 
wether something has changed.  It's in a way comparable to texexec that 
calls all necessary commands to make all pictures, indices and such current.

  sidestep: maybe it is possible to replace texexec with make (e.g. for
  platforms where perl isn't available

But there is more make does for dependencies.  For every prerequisite make 
checks wether that is current, too.  Say, you don't use context (boo ...) 
and want to include an eps picture build from metapost.  The following make 
rules will do that:

picture.eps: picture.mp
	mp picture.mp

blabla.pdf: blabla.tex picture.eps
	texexec --pdf blabla

The first rule inside a makefile will be processed by default so if you 
exchange the above rules a simple make will build blabla.pdf.

Two other important things you want to know about make will close this 
short introduction:

if a target is not a real file and the commands should be always started or 
the dependencies allways taken as unsatisfied, you can make a special rule 
that name all such targets:

.PHONY: all clean

all: blabla.pdf

clean:
	rm blabla.pdf

this is necessary if there accidentally is a file called clean because the 
rule clean has no dependencies and thus is always considered up to date 
(there is no dependency that is newer than clean) and so the command will 
not be executed.

The last thing to know is about variables.  I cite a part from the make 
manual ("info make" on unix):

     CC = gcc
     objects = program.o foo.o utils.o
     program : $(objects)
             $(CC) -o program $(objects)

     $(objects) : defs.h

It is a good idea to look into the GNU make manual.  It is well written and 
has many examples.

I hope this short introduction helps you (and possibly others) to write 
nice makefiles to produce good looking context documents ;-)

Uwe

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Re: make files

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:34 AM 6/9/01 +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote:

>Now, what does it mean: check the dependencies of the target?  Simply said, 
>make looks wether one of the dependencies (or prerequisites as the make 
>manual names them) is newer than the target.  So, if you modified the 
>source blabla.tex it will be rebuild.  If you haven't change anything the 
>target is current and make doesn't need to do anything.

Does this mean that "make" can see (or registers) if a file changes? 

>I hope this short introduction helps you (and possibly others) to write 
>nice makefiles to produce good looking context documents ;-)

everone, thanks a lot for all the explanations! 

Hans

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Re: make files

[Berend de Boer]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Does this mean that "make" can see (or registers) if a file changes? 

Yes, it builds a dependency network and only rebuilds what needs to,
depending on the last change time of each file.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: make files

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: Does this mean that "make" can see (or registers) if a file changes? 

Definitely. That's what it's there fore. You can
use it to define the dependencies between a large group
of files and let it remake the whole bunch in the
proper order as soon as it has detected one of the
dependencies has broken.

See the folowing reference for more information on
make. They also have an IMake version. Let me know
if you need info about that.

@Book{Oram:93,
  author    = {Oram, A.~ and Talbot, S.~},
  title     = {Managing Projects with Make},
  year      = {1993},
  publisher = {O'Reilly},
  isbn      = {0-9371175-90-0},
}

Regards,

Marc