.bf Files

The .bf suffix denotes build file.

The .bf files are a subset of Imakefiles. They contain link directives , and you can have several .bf files per directory. The mkmk tool concatenates the .bf files inside the Makefile product. The .bf file is preprocessed by the macro processor m4(1).

Table 4-7 lists the macros used in a .bf file. The Actor, ConfigurableActor, Library and BigObject macros use getExport, either directly or indirectly, to get the list of object files. The getExport command computes the list of object files to use when creating a link.

Table 4-7 Macros used in .bf Files

Macro	Description
	Build actor using libs
	Build actor using libs
	Build lib
	Build a relocatable object file
	Copy file into dir
	Copy file into dir
	Build actor using libs
	Build actor using libs
	Build lib
	Build a relocatable object file
	Copy file into dir
	Copy file into dir
	Build a pre-built actor and its finalized makefile using libs and local_libs.