a modification to 'make' ??

i was thinking about the way make works , when i had this thought ,.....
could i make an entry in the makefile , which would indicate the directory
containing the project source code and running make from anywhere
with that file as the make file would compile and install binaries from
the project directory , so that user who downloads the source code of an
utility may not have to always go and run make from that particular
directory ,..... especially for a novice user ?
what say ? but i am not sure if such a functionality of 'make' already
exists or not !!!!

Comments

Satish said…
found out lately that such a feature already exists with the standard make program , so this thread closed here !!

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