How do I target multiple directories with a single Makefile?
I am using GNU Make to create three different editions of a static html document.
I am using Less as a CSS preprocessor.
My directory structure looks like this:
Makefile
160x600/style.less
300x250/style.less
728x90/style.less
This is my Makefile:
LESSC=lessc -x # use -x for debugging
.PHONY: all clean
all: 160x600 300x250 728x90
%.css: %.less
$(LESSC) $< > $@
160x600: 160x600/style.css
300x250: 300x250/style.css
728x90: 728x90/style.css
clean:
rm -f 160x600/*.css
rm -f 300x250/*.css
rm -f 728x90/*.css
This way I can use make 160x600
to build style.css from style.less.
But I don't want to explicitly specify the target rule for each directory. Instead, I tried to add this rule instead of three specific directories:
%: %/style.css
But it doesn't work. I guess this example shows what my purpose is. Is there a way to accept any directory as a target so that I just need to specify the directory names in the rule all:
?
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