Makefile
 

Hi all,
1. I would like to ask what is the meaning of $i in the following sentense i found in Makefile. why do use the $i instead of $$i?

for i in $(SUBDIRS) ; do \
( cd $$i; make) ;\
done

2. The following sentence found in Makefile
rm -f *~

I would like to ask what is the meaning of *~?
why don't just use "rm -f *" instead?

3. I woluld like to ask:
ar -cr $(LIBCOMMON) $(OBJ)
ranlib $(LIBCOMMON)

what do the above sentence meain( also found in Makefile)?

Thanks

That interperets (sic) all the code in between the "do" and "done", each time assigning the value of the next item in $SUBDIRS to $i.

That above deletes everything ending in a ~ in the current directory - Usually back up files.
rm -f * deletes everything in the current directory.

Read the man pages for ar and ranlib.

I am not understand =)
 

HI,

Really thanks for you reply! =)

Alice

I am not understand =)
 

HI cerulean,

Really thanks for you reply! =)

Alice