I'm trying to setup a Makefile that will search and copy some files (if-else condition) and I can't figure out what exactly is wrong with it? (thou I'm pretty sure it's because a combination of spaces/tabs written in the wrong place).
Can I get some help with it, please?
Here's what I have currently:
obj-m = linuxmon.o
KDIR = /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
UNAME := $(shell uname -m)
all:
$(info Checking if custom header is needed)
ifeq ($(UNAME), x86_64)
$(info Yes)
F1_EXISTS=$(shell [ -e /usr/include/asm/unistd_32.h ] && echo 1 || echo 0 )
ifeq ($(F1_EXISTS), 1)
$(info Copying custom header)
$(shell sed -e 's/__NR_/__NR32_/g' /usr/include/asm/unistd_32.h > unistd_32.h)
else
F2_EXISTS=$(shell [[ -e /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h ]] && echo 1 || echo 0 )
ifeq ($(F2_EXISTS), 1)
$(info Copying custom header)
$(shell sed -e 's/__NR_/__NR32_/g' /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h > unistd_32.h)
else
$(error asm/unistd_32.h and asm-386/unistd.h does not exist)
endif
endif
$(info No)
endif
@make -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) clean
rm unistd_32.h
Anyways, that'll print "Yes", "Copying header" twice and then it will quit saying that sed can't read /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
(which of course it can't read as I'm on a x64 system).
I could say that make
just isn't understanding the if/else and instead is running everything line by line.
There are several problems here, so I'll start with my usual high-level advice: Start small and simple, add complexity a little at a time, test at every step, and never add to code that doesn't work. (I really ought to have that hotkeyed.)
You're mixing Make syntax and shell syntax in a way that is just dizzying. You should never have let it get this big without testing. Let's start from the outside and work inward.
UNAME := $(shell uname -m)
all:
$(info Checking if custom header is needed)
ifeq ($(UNAME), x86_64)
... do some things to build unistd_32.h
endif
@make -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
So you want unistd_32.h built (maybe) before you invoke the second make
, you can make it a prerequisite. And since you want that only in a certain case, you can put it in a conditional:
ifeq ($(UNAME), x86_64)
all: unistd_32.h
endif
all:
@make -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
unistd_32.h:
... do some things to build unistd_32.h
Now for building unistd_32.h
:
F1_EXISTS=$(shell [ -e /usr/include/asm/unistd_32.h ] && echo 1 || echo 0 )
ifeq ($(F1_EXISTS), 1)
$(info Copying custom header)
$(shell sed -e 's/__NR_/__NR32_/g' /usr/include/asm/unistd_32.h > unistd_32.h)
else
F2_EXISTS=$(shell [[ -e /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h ]] && echo 1 || echo 0 )
ifeq ($(F2_EXISTS), 1)
$(info Copying custom header)
$(shell sed -e 's/__NR_/__NR32_/g' /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h > unistd_32.h)
else
$(error asm/unistd_32.h and asm-386/unistd.h does not exist)
endif
endif
You are trying to build unistd.h
from unistd_32.h
; the only trick is that unistd_32.h
could be in either of two places. The simplest way to clean this up is to use a vpath
directive:
vpath unistd.h /usr/include/asm /usr/include/asm-i386
unistd_32.h: unistd.h
sed -e 's/__NR_/__NR32_/g' $< > $@
You can simply use shell commands. If you want to suppres echoing the output, use the "@" sign. For example:
clean:
@if [ "test" = "test" ]; then\
echo "Hello world";\
fi
Note that the closing ";" and "\" are necessary.