Copy html files from source directory to build directory

Question

I'm writing a makefile for a website.

I have a directory called src/ and build/

Basically, I want to take files like this:

src/index.html
src/blog/title1/index.html
src/blog/title2/index.html

And copy them to the build/ directory like this:

build/index.html
build/blog/title1/index.html
build/blog/title2/index.html

I tried writing a rule, but I'm not really sure how to debug this:

src_html := src/**/*.html
build_html := $(shell find src -name '*.html' | sed 's/src/build/')

$(src_html): $(build_html)
    @cp $< $@

Answer 1

You could use rsync if you have it installed.

default:
        rsync -r --include '*/' --include='*.html' --exclude='*' src/ build/