makefile problem

[Kenneth Burgener]

nikhil d purwant wrote:
>   
> hi people 
> 
>      so i got a good answer to my question about makefile the other day thanks the concerned people. now can anybody please explain me following lines from the makefile i have i know it has to do something with 
> the ipmlicit rules but i'm not being able to figure out exactly what it is (the CFLAGS LINE)
>  
> appending the part of the makefile 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> INCLUDEDIR =some path
> 
> #CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE  -DDEBUG_MESSAGE -DDEBUG_CRUDE -O -I$(INCLUDEDIR)
> CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE  -O -I$(INCLUDEDIR)

Hopefully I understand your question.  The question is what does the 
CFLAGS do?

The CFLAGS is just a variable that holds anything.  I could have been 
named THEFLAGS.

If you are asking what each of the parameters are:

 From what I remember the "-D" option says to specify a macro.  If I 
remember right the "-D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE" specifies to create in-kernel 
object files (modules).  The "-O" says to optimize.  The 
"-I$(INCLUDEDIR)" just specifies the path to the include files.

Hopefully that helped.

Kenneth
kenneth at uvlug.org