%% Michael Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mh> I inherited a Solaris Makefile and am converting it to run on Linux mh> gmake. I have a Makefile that includes the rule: mh> %.o : %.pl mh> $(CP) $< $*.o mh> @echo mh> (I changed it from a suffix to an implicit rule)
mh> This rule simply renames a perl script. When I type make -r I get: mh> #-------------------------------------------------- mh> # Building nvo_extract_flux mh> #-------------------------------------------------- mh> # makeall = announce nvo_extract_flux mh> # SCRIPTS = nvo_extract_flux.pl mh> # script_exec = nvo_extract_flux mh> make: *** No rule to make target `.o', needed by `nvo_extract_flux'. Stop. This has nothing to do with your implicit rule. The problem is somewhere else, in a part of the makefile you have not shown us: probably a variable setting. As the error tells you, make thinks that the target 'nvo_extract_flux' depends on the file '.o'. That is, the actual value '.o', not a suffix '.o' or something. Since you don't have a file '.o' in your directory, and make can't figure out how to build one (presumably because you don't have a file '.pl' in your directory), it gives the above error. I suspect that you have a line like this: nvo_extract_flux : $(SOURCE).o or something like that and the SOURCE variable (for example) is empty. Since you don't provide the proper part of your makefile there's little else we can say. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
