How to execute a makefile from LINUX system.

[gaurav kashyap]

Hi all,
I am using Link-41b parser in my program.
The windows version of it has an .exe file that can be executed using
os.system command
On Linux version,I have a makefile.

so my question is:
How to run the makefile using some python function.

Thanks

[Chris Rebert]

Re: How to execute a makefile from LINUX system.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:32 PM, gaurav kashyap
<gauravkec2005@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi all,
I am using Link-41b parser in my program.
The windows version of it has an .exe file that can be executed using
os.system command
On Linux version,I have a makefile.
>
so my question is:
How to run the makefile using some python function.

Use the 'subprocess' module
(http://docs.python.org/library/subpr...ule-subprocess) to
run the 'make' command in the same working directory as the Makefile
with the appropriate target as an option.

Cheers,
Chris
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[gaurav kashyap]

Re: How to execute a makefile from LINUX system.

Thanks

[Ben Finney]

Re: How to execute a makefile from LINUX system.

gaurav kashyap <gauravkec2005@ gmail.comwrites :

How to run the makefile using some python function.

A makefile is not a program to be run; it contains a declarative
(*not* procedural) data set for the ‘make’ program. You need to invoke
the ‘make’ command, tell it which file to read, and specify which
target you want it to achieve.

An example:

$ make -f /tmp/foo/makefile spam

where ‘/tmp/foo/makefile’ is the path to the file containing the data
set, and ‘spam’ is the target you want ‘make’ to achieve.

How do you know which target you want? You'll need that information
from the author of the makefile, such as in the documentation that
comes with the makefile.

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