I have a simple makefile which takes care of building my website by moving assets from ~/static_source to ~/static. However, when I add my Javascript folder to the makefile, my HTML and CSS stop compiling! When I comment out the JS block, my HTML and CSS compiles again.
Bad Version
LESS = $(wildcard static_source/styles/*.less)
CSS = $(patsubst static_source/%.less,static/%.css,$(LESS))
static/styles/%.css: static_source/styles/%.less static_source/styles/base.less static_source/styles/header.less
lessc $< $@
HTML = $(patsubst static_source/%,static/%,$(wildcard static_source/*.html))
static/%.html: static_source/%.html
ln -s ../$< $@
#This stops CSS and HTML from running. Perhaps it's because static/scripts is a folder?
JS = static/scripts
static/scripts: static_source/scripts
ln -s ../$< $@
all: $(CSS) $(HTML)
Good Version:
LESS = $(wildcard static_source/styles/*.less)
CSS = $(patsubst static_source/%.less,static/%.css,$(LESS))
static/styles/%.css: static_source/styles/%.less static_source/styles/base.less static_source/styles/header.less
lessc $< $@
HTML = $(patsubst static_source/%,static/%,$(wildcard static_source/*.html))
static/%.html: static_source/%.html
ln -s ../$< $@
#This stops CSS and HTML from running. Perhaps it's because static/scripts is a folder?
JS = static/scripts
#static/scripts: static_source/scripts
# ln -s ../$< $@
all: $(CSS) $(HTML)
I do not know why the scripts folder is being created with the "bad" version (nothing depends on it), or why the static/scripts rule prevents HTML and CSS from being created.
The only output from the bad version, as of the second running, is "make: 'static/scripts' is up to date." The output from the good version, as of the second running, is "make: Nothing to be done for 'all'."
