[syslinux] make -r all-local

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 23 11:17:17 PDT 2008


Geert Stappers wrote:
>>
>> $ make
>> make -r all-local
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7'
>> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-local'.
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7'
>> set -e ; for i in codepage core memdisk modules com32 mbr memdump gpxe sample libinstaller dos win32 libinstaller mtools linux extlinux utils ; do make -r -C $i all ; done
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/codepage'
>> perl cptable.pl UnicodeData cp1250.txt cp1250.txt cp1250.cp
>  <snip/>
> 
> The '-r all-local' is unknown to me.
> I don't understand why it is added.
> 

-r just tells make not to use its builtin rules (which I wish was the 
default.)

all-local is defined as such in the top-level Makefile:

BTARGET  = version.gen version.h version.mk
ITARGET  =
all-local: $(BTARGET) $(ITARGET)

	-hpa




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