"Jason Friedman" <write.to.ja...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have had this make question that has been bugging me for a long time.
>
> I want to fix some eps files using eps2eps. This is the makefile I use:
>
> figure1_fixed.eps: figure1.eps
> [tab] eps2eps $< $@
>
> (replace [tab] with the tab character)
>
> This works fine, but when I have many eps files to convert, I have to
> repeat the command line many times. A similar problem is this one:
>
> figure2.eps: ../../some/other/path/some_long_ugly_filename.eps
>
> After lots of googling, I have not been able to find a solution. Is
> there a way to do this in make, if not, can you suggest another tool
> that can do this? I have been running into variants of this problem
> several times.
Hi Jason,
For a fellow Penn State postdoc (I was there in 1995) let me offer a
variant of Omer's solution with some enhancements and a bit simpler
syntax (works with GNU make, I assume this is the case as it is a
Linux list):
######################################################
# list directories where files to be fixed live
VPATH := /long/ugly/path:/some/other/path/too
# list all files to be fixed here
ORIG := figure1.eps figure2.eps
FIXED := $(ORIG:.eps=_fixed.eps)
# you can override this if eps2eps lives in a
# different place from default
FIX := /usr/bin/eps2eps
fix: $(FIXED)
%_fixed.eps: %.eps
ifdef HERE
$(FIX) $< $@
else
$(FIX) $< $(dir $<)$@
endif
PHONY: fix
#######################################################
With this, simple "make fix" will put each fixed file in the same
directory with the original, while "make fix HERE=yes" will collect
the fixed files in the current directory. The makefile searches VPATH
so you can move the originals around, etc.
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org
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