Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 09:43:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Antonio Carlos Moreirao de Queiroz <acmq AT coe DOT ufrj DOT br>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Make doesn't find makefile
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Antonio Carlos Moreirao de Queiroz wrote:

> I cannot make "make" find the "makefile", that is in the current directory.
> Typing "make", I get a message saying that there is no makefile.
> Typing "make -fmakefile" works, but then the linker doesn't find libraries.
> Changing the makefile replacing references as ../ by complete paths appears
> to help, but some files are still not found.

Can you give a simple example of a Makefile with and without complete 
paths that will work with complete pathnames, but not with relative 
ones?  What files are found and which aren't?

> I am using the files from the SimTel distribution in oak.oakland.edu.

Is it v2.0 or v1.x?