From: "Stephen Wade" <maitrek AT austarmetro DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Going insane with Make
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Actually, I think it may just be the fact that I'm using it from a
particular directory.

Stephen Wade <maitrek AT austarmetro DOT com DOT au> wrote in message
news:3e350912$1 AT news DOT comindico DOT com DOT au...
> 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.
>
>