%% "Mike Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> Noel Yap wrote:
>> What version of make are you using? What does "make --version" >> output? mm> Gnu 3.79.1 >> Make should've said it couldn't build foo.ReadMe before it said >> anything about foo.bar. Are you sure that it didn't? mm> Yes, that was exactly what I was wishing it would have said, and mm> it didn't. It will say this if you defined an explicit rule, since then make knows that _THIS_ rule should work, and if a prerequisite can't be created it can tell you about it. If you defined an implicit rule then make can't know that _this_ implicit rule should have matched, out of all the different implicit rules that might have matched, so printing an error about not being able to create a particular prerequisite is not appropriate. The debug output _WOULD_ tell you that make considered this rule, and it would even tell you that it tried to find a way to build the prerequisite and couldn't. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
