Make the apps Makefiles "app independent" This makes it easier to create new apps...

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5cf8955..009719c 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -62,3 +62,17 @@ clean:
 
 mrproper: clean
        rm -f apps/*/*.bin apps/*/*.elf apps/*/*.map
+
+
+# Some notes :
+# The command "make -f /path/to/here/Makefile app_name" does not work, as well
+# as the command "make -f /path/to/here/apps/app_name/Makefile".
+# This coul dbe solved in the app Makefiles by replacing
+#   "NAME = $(shell basename $(CURDIR))"
+# with
+#   "NAME = $(shell basename $(shell dirname $(realpath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))))"
+# and possibly some similar trick for the base Makefile but this is just
+# unreadable and moslty unusefull, so it won't be supported.
+# Use "make -C /path/to/here/ app_name" or "make -C /path/to/here/apps/app_name"
+# instead.
+

diff --git a/README b/README
index 211f1bd..c49c96b 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Example applications are created in the apps directory, with one
 sub-directory for each application. These are (and must stay) independent.
 
 More usefull stuff is up to you. Creating an app is *very* simple. Copy
-an example from apps/ to the name you want and simply change "NAME" in the
-Makefile to the name of your new directory. Please, no spaces in the name !
+an example from apps/ to the name you want and start coding.
+** Please, no spaces (or special characters) in the directory name ! **
 
 
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