makeanywhere: Run make from any subdirectory of a directory with a Makefile.

Usage

$ makeanywhere --help
USAGE: makeanywhere [-h|--help|make arguments]                                            
  Run make from any subdirectory of a directory with a Makefile.  

To run a make command from any directory that has a parent directory with a Makefile:

makeanywhere <MAKE ARGUMENTS>

Examples

$ ls
Makefile src
$ cd src
$ makeanywhere test
<Runs tests while within src/>

If vim is setup to change directories to that of the current file, you can use this script to run make while within any directory of your make based project.

$ vim src/main.c
!makeanywhere test
<Runs tests in vim while within src/>
!makeanywhere format-fix FILES=%:p
<Formats this specific file>

Installation

1. Download raw.githubusercontent.com/roguh/gp/main/gp.
2. Make executable and move to your preferred binary location.

chmod +x gp
sudo cp gp /usr/bin/gp

Shell Integration

Bash and ZSH

Use alias ma=makeanywhere for a convenient alias.

ZSH

To support make autocompletions, try using the zsh-completions plugin and using compdef makeanywhere make. See manual

Fish Shell

Copy makeanywhere.fish to ~/.config/fish/functions/.

Vim Integration

Simply make sure this script is in your $PATH.

Usage: !makeanywhere <MAKE ARGUMENTS>

Look at ./example.vimrc for how to setup aliases in Vim. The contents of ~/.bash_vim are in ~/example.bash_vim.

For developers

Cloning and Installation

git clone https://github.com/roguh/gp.git
cd gp

Then one of:

make install
make install-to-user
make install-symlink-to-user

Integration Testing

If the test script fails, the tests have failed. Also read the output to determine if makeanywhere is behaving correctly.

Note the test-integration-all-shells.sh script runs the test-integration.sh script using the test shell itself.

Linux: Running tests for many shells at once

make test-on-linux

MacOS: Running tests for many shells at once

make test-on-macos

Running tests for stricter POSIX shells

make test-on-strict-posix-shells

Running tests one shell at a time

./tests/test-integration.sh dash

Test results

Linux

Tested using GNU coreutils 9.0 in these shells:

• dash 0.5
• bash 5.1
• bash 5.1 in bash 3.1 compatibility mode BASH_COMPAT=31
• zsh 5.8
• yash 2.52
• ksh version 2020.0.0

MacOS

Not tested on MacOS, yet. It should work fine.

Linting and Compatibility Check

Use shellcheck to check shellscripts.

make check