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Clean up Makefiles #75
Description
Our sub-projects (Ncat, Nping, Zenmap, Ndiff, and nmap-update) and included libraries (libpcap, libpcre, liblua, libnetutil, nbase, nsock, libdnet-stripped) use different spellings and arrangement of directives, variables, and dependencies, but really all do nearly the same thing. Example:
all: @LUA_BUILD@ @LIBLINEAR_BUILD@ @PCAP_BUILD@ @PCRE_BUILD@ @DNET_BUILD@ @NBASE_BUILD@ @NSOCK_BUILD@ @NCAT_BUILD@ @NMAP_UPDATE_BUILD@ netutil_build
$(MAKE) $(TARGET) $(BUILDZENMAP) $(BUILDNDIFF) $(BUILDNPING)In this example, why does libnetutil not use an AC_SUBST expansion, but nbase does? Why do Ncat and nmap-update use AC_SUBST expansions and not a Makefile variable like $(BUILDNCAT)? Later in the file, why is it ncat_build but build-nping?
The targets are also interspersed: sometimes the clean-* targets are all together, other times it's grouped by project name.
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dmiller-nmap commentedon Mar 10, 2015
At the risk of bloating an already broad task, a lot of our stuff breaks with large
-jvalues to make.G10h4ck commentedon Jul 22, 2015
I am working on it https://gitlab.com/g10h4ck/nmap-gsoc2015/commits/hotfix/75
Update changelog with changes relative to #75
boite commentedon Sep 18, 2015
@G10h4ck are you still working on this issue? If not, and if @dmiller-nmap (or is it @bonsaiviking ) isn't, then I'd like to do a bit more towards it: there's still some un-interspersing that can be done along with more conversions of
AC_SUBSTexpansions to Makefile variables.G10h4ck commentedon Sep 18, 2015
Nope I am not working on it right now, so you are welcome to continue fixing this ;)
Update changelog with changes relative to nmap#75
fyodor commentedon Apr 20, 2026
Closing because this is maybe too broad/general of an issue and we have other build-system issues that are better defined. Plus it has been lingering open for 11 years at this point.