Is this the proper way to write Makefile? Please help

[sandeep t]

I have a Makefile something like this:

all: libfe libbe
libfe:  ${ODIR}/${LIBFE}
libbe:  ${ODIR}/${LIBBE}

Now.. I have to report those targets to our Build server where we can see the logs if the target is failed. So we have some utilities report_begin and report_end which we are calling from another Makefile called Makefile.rep. and I have to prepend and append these two targets in the main Makefile.

Here is the Makefile.rep

report_begin:
              begin_utility -target=$TARGET -server=server
report_end:
              end_utility -target=$TARGET -server=server

I modified the main Makefile in this fashion:

all: libfe libbe
libfe: TARGET=libfe
libfe:  report_begin ${ODIR}/${LIBFE} report_end

libbe: TARGET=libbe
libbe:  report_begin ${ODIR}/${LIBBE} report_end

Here when I do make all, it calls report_begin and report_end only for first target i.e libfe. and not for libbe. I don;t know why. May be make feels that there is no need to build targets report_begin and report_end.. But I have to call them everytime. Is there any way?

So, I decided to change it the following way:

libfe:  
      @make report_begin 
      @make ${ODIR}/${LIBFE} 
      @make report_end

libfe:
      @make report_begin
      @make ${ODIR}/${LIBBE}
      @make report_end

Is this the correct way to write the Makefile? Please help..

[sandeep t]

Sorry.. I missed something in the last makefile:

libfe:  
      @make MODULE=libfe report_begin 
      @make ${ODIR}/${LIBFE} 
      @make MODULE=libfe report_end

libbe:
      @make MODULE=libbe report_begin
      @make ${ODIR}/${LIBBE}
      @make MODULE=libbe report_end