From: sillybog AT hotmail DOT com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Make Problems
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 01:08:45 GMT
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i recently downloaded GNU Make 3.79 and have encountered
some erratic behavior with it.

When i invoke it from certain directories it won't
detect my makefile.

e.g.
when i execute make.exe file in c:\dev\proj i get this message:

	make.exe: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

but when i do the same in c:\ the makefile executes fine.
it also works in c:\dev aswell, but not in c:\dev\proj or any of the
directories in it.

can anyone explain why this is happening? I've heard that GCC has
certain directores that it treats differently like \dev\, could
make.exe be doing the same for \dev\proj\?

I've been trying debug make.exe to see whats going on but have not
been successful in compileing the sources, so if anyone also has a MS
Visual C++ project file that will build the sources i would appreciate
that too. (my email address is: boggy99(at)mail(dot)com.


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My PATH environment is set to:

PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\DEV\UTILS;C:\PROGRA~1\ULTRAEDIT;
C:\DEV\MASM\BIN;C:\DEV\TASM\BIN;C:\DEV\MSDEV\SHAREDIDE\BIN;C:\DEV\MSDEV\
VC\BIN

The name of my makefile is 'makefile'
it consists of:

test :
	@echo this makefile works

The directories i invoked make from consisted of only the makefile and
make.exe

I'm using Make 3.79
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regards


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