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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Genevieve Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Anders Bertelrud, Burlingame, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments may provide a makefile interposer, which enables a makefile to be used for building software for different platforms without modifying the makefile. In some embodiments, the interposer intercepts the commands run by makefile and automatically interposes the correct library files, dependencies, paths, and other information used by make to build the program for a particular platform. Additionally, calls that the invoked tools themselves make are intercepted and the interposer may redirect them to the platform-specific tools or file system locations including redirecting file descriptors. In some instances, when a tool is called that is not in the platform, the interposer may also fall back on the other system tools.