community.general.make – Run targets in a Makefile

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.make.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Run targets in a Makefile.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

make

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
chdir path / required		Change to this directory before running make.
file path		Use a custom Makefile.
jobs integer added in 2.0.0 of community.general		Set the number of make jobs to run concurrently. Typically if set, this would be the number of processors and/or threads available to the machine. This is not supported by all make implementations.
make path added in 0.2.0 of community.general		Use a specific make binary.
params dictionary		Any extra parameters to pass to make.
target string		The target to run. Typically this would be something like `install`,`test` or `all`."

Examples

- name: Build the default target
  community.general.make:
    chdir: /home/ubuntu/cool-project

- name: Run 'install' target as root
  community.general.make:
    chdir: /home/ubuntu/cool-project
    target: install
  become: yes

- name: Build 'all' target with extra arguments
  community.general.make:
    chdir: /home/ubuntu/cool-project
    target: all
    params:
      NUM_THREADS: 4
      BACKEND: lapack

- name: Build 'all' target with a custom Makefile
  community.general.make:
    chdir: /home/ubuntu/cool-project
    target: all
    file: /some-project/Makefile

Authors

Linus Unnebäck (@LinusU) <[email protected]>

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/make_module.html