Re: [cdt-dev] make target question

["Alain Magloire" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> Can someone explain the purpose behind the "Make Target"'s view?  Is it 
> essentially to tell the builder where to start the build process? 
> (i.e., where to pick up the default Makefile when executing "make"?).
> 

Yes, it is to permit to let you start a build at specific folder.
Eclipse default builders always start from the Project location.

> When I first tried the CDT, I expected the "make target" to be used as a 
> make target (you can probably see why I might be confused).
> 

To do that you have to "add a Target", in the context menu
(There is a problem once you add a target say "install", you have to 
"refresh") then by double-clicking on it(the "install" node), it should
invoke the default builder at the folder with the target:
 cd project/folder; make install


> Right-clicking on a make target named "hello" and then selecing "Build", 
> I fully expected to see something like "make -k hello", but instead I 
> see "make -k clean all" in the C-Build View.  The former would actually 
> be a way of using the built-in make rules to build a target when no 
> makefile exists.

See above, right click "add the target", "refresh" and double-click
on the target you created.  By clicking on the folder hello, it
uses the default build targets, which is "clean all"

> For instance, I could create a new "hello" project, create a simple 
> hello.c source file, use the default "hello" make target provided by the 
> CDT, and then select "Build".  No makefile generation necessary, since 
> building "hello" from "hello.c" is already part of the default make rules.
> 

Yes, we never really went far with the "Make target view", since there
was no clear direction on what the default CDT builder would be.
Once this is done, I do not think this view will survive, at least
not how it is.  And some of the functionnalities is already
in the "C/C++ Project view".

> I also noticed I can't seem to tell the CDT not to include the word 
> "all" in my custom build commands.  In other words, modifying the 
> properties for the "hello" project, and setting the build command to 
> "make -k hello" results in a "make -k hello all" reflected in the 
> C-Build view.  Make complains about the "all" target, since I have no 
> makefile.

I do not see this,
-> go in the C/C++ projects view
 -> choose context menu "add make targets"
  -> a dialog field will pop
   -> put 'hello' in the textfield(whithout the quotes)
    -> choose context menu "Make" in the C/C++ project view
     -> the target "hello" should appear
      -> you should see in the C-Build "make -k hello"

You can remove the "-k" in the properties of the project
in the Build Setting tab.

> 
> Am I just wasting my time here, or is it worth trying to use make's 
> build-in target rules for simple projects?
> 

Not sure, what you meant however, there is on going discussion about the
default CDT build, you are welcome to provide feedbacks and source code.