From: "Stephen Wade" <maitrek AT austarmetro DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Going insane with Make
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Okay, this should be a really straightforward problem, it's likely something
massively simple that I've missed - but I'm obviously too dumb to figure it
out myself so here goes.

This is my frist attempt at using a makefile, and every time i run "make"
from the MS-DOS prompt in windows 98 in a directory which contains this
makefile
(called 'makefile')
#------------------
vpath %.c ..\src
vpath %.h ..\src

CC=gcc.exe

vexle : vexle.o vbe3.o mouse.o
 cc -o vexle vexle.o vbe3.o mouse.o

vexle.o : vexle.c vexle.h
 cc -c vexle.c

vbe3.o : vbe3.c vbe3.h
 cc -c vbe3.c

mouse.o : mouse.c mouse.h
 cc -c mouse.c

.PHONY : clean

clean :
 del *.o
#------------

I get the output
"make.exe: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop."

Why is it saying this? As far as I can tell I have a valid target, and the
makefile is *definitely* there (I'm not that dumb - or am i :) ) any ideas?
I'm using latest version of DJGPP to compile and make.exe ver. 3.791

When i tell it to spew output it just seems to whinge alot about recursion
trying to find makefiles of various names, and that's it.