Re: makefile target "all:" not built automatically

2011-04-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Perhaps it could even be mentioned in this chapter that "all" is not a > special target: There are quite a lot of other target names we could mention as not being special targets ! I think the thing you need to know, to understand what *is* documented, is that the first rule read, when parsing

Re: makefile target "all:" not built automatically

2011-04-26 Thread Jon Grant
Hello Paul On 26 April 2011 13:34, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:31 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: >> I noticed that the "all:" target must be at the top of a makefile, >> unless explicitly built by "make all". Is this expected? It seems >> quite limiting.. > > There is nothing special ab

Re: makefile target "all:" not built automatically

2011-04-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:31 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: > I noticed that the "all:" target must be at the top of a makefile, > unless explicitly built by "make all". Is this expected? It seems > quite limiting.. There is nothing special about the "all" target. That's just a convention that many, but

makefile target "all:" not built automatically

2011-04-26 Thread Jon Grant
Hello I noticed that the "all:" target must be at the top of a makefile, unless explicitly built by "make all". Is this expected? It seems quite limiting.. I'm running GNU Make 3.81, built for Windows32. Please retain my email address in any replies. Best regards, Jon Output: C:\>make system