make rule heritage, is that possible?

I was writing a set of makefiles to build some of my projects and I see me copying/pasting some rules that are exactly the same, only changing the directory where they are executed and the variables contents.

Is there a way to write this kind of rules once and let it been inherited from a make directory level to another...

I think on something like this,

Top Makefile
--
generic-rule:

	...

--

subdir/Makefile
--
inherit generic-rule
--

I think about writing this rules on a Common.mk makefile and -include this file. Does anyone tried someting like that before?

Yes, I have this working. I have a top level makefile that calls
make on each subproject, and in each subproject makefile, first I define the variables specific to the project and then I include a common.mk. It took me some time to have it working to my taste, you will probably have to read the make manual thoroughly as I did.
There is another option, which I never investigated, there are many
other options for project compilation, like cmake or bjam.
Darío

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