Scott Smedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tibbs/fvwm/doc' > > cp ./index.html index.html > > cp: `./index.html' and `index.html' are the same file > > make[2]: *** [index.html] Error 1 > > I need some help. I can't work out how to get make to do what I want. > > I want to support both in-tree & out-of-tree builds. > > In my case, for an in-tree build nothing needs to be done. For an > out-of-tree build, a file has to be copied to the build directory. > > I used to use this: > > all: > @for f in $(doc_DATA) ; do \ > [ ! -f $$f ] && cp -p $(srcdir)/$$f $$f; \ > done ; true > > This had the desired effect except (in out-of-tree builds) make wouldn't > update the out-of-tree file(s) whenever the source file changed. So I > changed it to this (doc_DATA is just a bunch of .html files, by the way): > > all: $(doc_DATA) > > %.html: $(srcdir)/$@
This doesn't look right at all. There's a % in the target but no matching % in the dependency. For the rule to fire I think there needs to be one. > Any pointers would be muchly appreciated. Don't know if that will help, I know my understanding is imperfect. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
