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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:58:29 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Some questions about porting fileutils 4.0
References: <39081435 DOT E2EDBC04 AT bigfoot DOT com> <200004272025 DOT QAA25550 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com>
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> When Make is run by just typing "make [Enter]", it defaults to
> `Makefile', and only if `Makefile' doesn't exist (and if it's GNU Make),
> does it turn to `GNUmakefile'.

According to the make 3.79 manual, the order is:

`GNUmakefile', `makefile' and `Makefile'

See this node:

info make 'Makefile Names' 'What Name to Give Your Makefile'

BTW putting "SHELL=/bin/sh" at the start of GNUmakefile fixed the problem
and 'make' now works.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/

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