Comments on: Run a Shell Command in a Makefile http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/11/run-a-shell-command-in-a-makefile/ The Linux Journey Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron Gember http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/11/run-a-shell-command-in-a-makefile/comment-page-1/#comment-2855 Aaron Gember Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:05:21 +0000 http://blog.lundscape.com/?p=261#comment-2855 This is also helpful for use with xfig and gnuplot, in conjunction with LaTeX. You can create PDFs of graphs using: <pre> %.pdf: %.p gnuplot $< epstopdf ${@:.pdf=.eps} </pre> You can create PDFs from xfig files using: <pre> %.pdf: %.fig fig2dev -L pdf $< ${@:.fig=.pdf} </pre> This is also helpful for use with xfig and gnuplot, in conjunction with LaTeX.

You can create PDFs of graphs using:

%.pdf: %.p
    gnuplot $<
    epstopdf ${@:.pdf=.eps}

You can create PDFs from xfig files using:

%.pdf: %.fig
    fig2dev -L pdf $< ${@:.fig=.pdf}
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