On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Anthony Shipman <a...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:26:14 am Philip Guenther wrote: ... >> The paragraph just above the example says this: >> ---- >> For example, if you have a makefile called `Makefile' that says how >> to make the target `foo' (and other targets), you can write a makefile >> called `GNUmakefile' that contains: >> ---- >> >> I.e., you *first* must have a file "Makefile" in the current >> directory. The error message you got says that you don't have that, >> so of course the example doesn't work. > > I expected that "make foo" would cause "frobnicate > foo" to be run and not > require a file called Makefile to exist. I thought that the Makefile would > only be used when a "make bar" is attempted.
So, umm, why are you playing with this example? Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
