Same apologies, shorter note. --Mark
James Carlson wrote: > Mark J. Nelson writes: >> this section should read simply >> >> 49 SUBDIRS= $(CMDSUBDIRS) $(LIBSUBDIR) >> >> 87 $(CMDSUBDIRS): $(LIBSUBDIR) >> 88 >> 89 all clean clobber install lint _msg: $(SUBDIRS) > > That sets the default build target for 'make' to be $(CMDSUBDIRS) > (rather than "all"), which is probably not quite what you want. > (Though it should happen to work here because of the dependency.) Of course, sorry about that, line 87 should not be before line 89. --Mark >> Ok, dang, some duplicated effort here. I just got Jim's reply, and most >> (but not everything) of what I've said is in his note, too. > > ;-} >