Maje ==== Maje is a simple utility to generate basic Makefiles for simple utilities. Maje scans a directory tree for C source code, and builds a Makefile with proper dependency information based on that code. The Makefile in this source tree is itself generated by Maje. There are a few restrictions: - Source files must be named ending with .c. - Only one target per source tree: a binary (identified by the source file containing main(), which will have the same basename without .c), or a library (identified by the MAJE_LIB flag (see below), or the current directory name if MAJE_LIB is not specified). Usage ===== Run Maje with: maje [-n] By default, Maje will execute `make` when it is done creating the Makefile. Use the `-n` option to prevent this. Maje creates Makefiles with prefixes $(SRCDIR) and $(OBJDIR) for the source directory and object directory, respectively. By default these are set to `.` (the current directory). An out-of-tree build can be accomplished by first generating the Makefile in the source directory and manually specifying the object directory as an option to `make`: maje -n mkdir obj make OBDIR=obj Or: maje -n mkdir ../build cd ../build make -f ${OLDPWD}/Makefile SRCDIR=${OLDPWD} Setting Flags ============= Maje recognizes some flags in source code that can be automatically added into the resulting Makefile. The following, followed by an equal sign, are copied up to the first white space character as indicated: MAJE_CFLAG Added to the CFLAGS macro MAJE_LDFLAG Added to the LDFLAGS macro MAJE_LDLIB Added to the LDLIBS macro MAJE_LIB Used as the library basename (e.g. MAJE_LIB=foo will create libfoo.a and libfoo.so) Maje will find these strings anywhere in your source file, so long as they are followed by an equal sign, one or more characters, and a whitespace character. Comments are a good place for them.