first commit, initial layout and some ideas I want to implement, included my linked list impl

make/rules.mk

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+LIB      := $(BUILD_DIR)/lib/libnickel.a
+BIN_DIR  := $(BUILD_DIR)/bin
+OBJ_DIR  := $(BUILD_DIR)/obj
+
+NICKEL_SRCS  := $(wildcard src/nickel/*.c)
+NICKEL_OBJS  := $(patsubst src/%.c,$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o,$(NICKEL_SRCS))
+
+TEST_SRCS := $(wildcard tests/*.c)
+TEST_BIN  := $(BIN_DIR)/tests
+
+TOOL_BINS := \
+  #$(BIN_DIR)/logscan \
+  #$(BIN_DIR)/dedupe
+
+.PHONY: all clean test tools examples
+
+all: $(LIB) tools $(TEST_BIN)
+
+$(LIB): $(NICKEL_OBJS)
+	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(AR) rcs $@ $^
+	$(RANLIB) $@
+
+$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: src/%.c
+	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+# Tests link against libnickel.a
+$(TEST_BIN): $(TEST_SRCS) $(LIB)
+	@mkdir -p $(BIN_DIR)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(TEST_SRCS) $(LIB) $(LDLIBS)
+
+# Tools (one main.c each; expand as needed)
+#$(BIN_DIR)/logscan: tools/logscan/main.c $(LIB)
+#	@mkdir -p $(BIN_DIR)
+#	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(LIB) $(LDLIBS)
+
+#$(BIN_DIR)/dedupe: tools/dedupe/main.c $(LIB)
+#	@mkdir -p $(BIN_DIR)
+#	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(LIB) $(LDLIBS)
+
+test: $(TEST_BIN)
+	$(TEST_BIN)
+
+tools: $(TOOL_BINS)
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)