MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

make(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities make(1)

Attributes

make deﬁnes several target attributes. Attributes may be assigned to a single target, a group

of targets, or to all targets in the makeﬁle. Attributes affect what make does when it needs to

update a target. You can associate attributes with targets by specifying a rule of the following

form:

attribute_list : target ...

This assigns the attributes in attribute_list to the given targets. If you do not specify any tar-

gets, the attributes apply to every target in the makeﬁle. You can also put attributes inside a

normal rule, as in:

targets attribute_list : prerequisite ...

These are the recognized attributes:

.EPILOG

Insert shell epilog code when executing a group recipe associated with any target

having this attribute set.

.IGNORE

Ignore an error when trying to make any target with this attribute set.

.LIBRARY

Target is a library.

.LIBRARYM

Target is a library member (cannot be set by the user).

.PRECIOUS

Do not remove this target under any circumstances. Any automatically inferred pre-

requisite inherits this attribute.

.PROLOG

Insert shell prolog code when executing a group recipe associated with any target

having this attribute set.

.SETDIR

Change current working directory to speciﬁed directory when making associated tar-

gets. The syntax of this attribute is .SETDIR=path, where path is the path name of

desired working directory. If path contains any colon (:) characters, the entire attri-

bute string must be quoted, not just the path name.

.SILENT

Do not echo the recipe lines when making any target with this attribute set, and do

not issue any warnings.

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