Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On June 22, 2002 at 12:22, "Jon Stewart" wrote: > > > The problem is that Apple's HFS+ file system, which is the default and > > best-supported fs at the moment, is case preserving yet case insensitive. > > > > Thus, the INSTALL doc looks just the same to make as "install". Renaming > > it to README.INSTALL lets me run make install. > > > > That gave me a few install errors, but I forgot to sudo it. I'll start > > over, rename the INSTALL doc, and -- hopefully -- report my success. > > Your problem could have been avoid if .PHONY was defined within > the makefile. > > Are there any reasons why .PHONY is not defined?
Apparently no one ever used nmh on a case-insensitive OS before, or if they did, they didn't report that "make install" failed (so many open source packages have a top-level "INSTALL" file that such people would probably work around the "`install' is up to date" problem by reflex). As for me, I'd never heard of .PHONY before now. Is it GNU make specific? I just looked at a Solaris make man page and it doesn't support this (verified experimentally). -- Dan Harkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://harkless.org/dan/
