NAME

       makeobj - run make from the correct directory

SYNOPSIS

       makeobj [ make-argument ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       makeobj  is  a  wrapper  around  make  which  basically  checks whether it's in the source
       directory or the build directory and changes to the correct directory before calling make.

       The command-line arguments will (generally) be passed directly to make.

       This script is useful if the source directory is different from the  build  directory  and
       the Makefiles are kept in the build directory, as is common for instance when building the
       KDE sources.  This script can however be used in more standard scenarios (such as  non-KDE
       projects  for  which  the source and build directories are the same), where it will behave
       just like make.

       One of the environment variables OBJ_SUBDIR or OBJ_REPLACEMENT should be set  to  indicate
       where the build directory is in relation to the source directory.

       This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Note  that  only  one  of  OBJ_SUBDIR  and  OBJ_REPLACEMENT  should be used.  If the build
       directory is  simply  a  subdirectory  of  the  source  directory,  the  simpler  variable
       OBJ_SUBDIR should be used.

       OBJ_SUBDIR
              Indicates  that  the  build  directory  is  in the given subdirectory of the source
              directory.  For instance, if the source directory is kdesdk and the build directory
              is kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then OBJ_SUBDIR should be set to obj-i386-linux.

       OBJ_REPLACEMENT
              A  sed  expression  that  is  used to transform the source directory into the build
              directory.  For instance, if the source directory is  ~/src/kdesdk  and  the  build
              directory   is   ~/src/kdesdk-obj,   then   OBJ_REPLACEMENT   could   be   set   to
              s#src/kdesdk#src/kdesdk-obj#.

SEE ALSO

       make(1), sed(1).

AUTHOR

       makeobj was written by Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>.
       This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton  <bab@debian.org>  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

                                          March 20, 2005                               MAKEOBJ(1)