https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Implicit-Variables provides common variable names which should be followed out of convention.

In particular, the example at

I was using this Small Template to play with a dummy project I created to learn a bit about git.
However, after making some branches, some changes and committing and pushing them up to my github repository, I tried to recompile the project but it failed due to some multiple definition of a function. I had to 'make clean' and 'make' again to be able to compile the project with updated object files.
It should rather detect that the obj files were outdated and relink them all again.

It's possiable to add configure to makefile?

Issue

-s option in MAKEFLAGS causes compilation failure.

Building Project
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 's'.  Stop.
/home/ubuntu/Makefile-Templates/MediumProject/Example/config/make.global:18: recipe for target 'src1' failed
make: *** [src1] Error 2

Environment

• GNU Make 4.1. It supports the -s option.
• ubuntu 4.15.0-54-generic

The MediumExample can be compiled successfully after removing the -s option.

Hi.

In line 20, we are requested to enter the file that contains function 'main.c'. The docs says to place main.c in root directory (I assume not inside src/).

MAIN_SRC :=# FILL: src file contains main()``

This macro is not being used when object files are created, so main.o is never created, making the compilation to fail.

Workaround is to place main.c inside src/ and add it to Makefile like so:
MAIN_SRC :=src/main.c

Some compilation error occurs when linking libxml2.
Moving CCFLAGS to the end solves the problem, but I'm not sure why.

CCFLAGS is set to

CCFLAGS := -I/usr/include/libxml2 -lxml2

Solution

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 94d8e0505876947c8f6786343cd178b4ef846035..390ae65500b699557b3da12391e05e75ae94b2e7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ default: makedir all
 
 # non-phony targets
 $(TARGET): $(OBJ)
-	$(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJ)
+	$(CC) -o $@ $(OBJ) $(CCFLAGS)
 
 $(OBJ_PATH)/%.o: $(SRC_PATH)/%.c*
 	$(CC) $(CCOBJFLAGS) -o $@ $<