Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990215155518.26563.rocketmail@send106.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:55:18 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: B20: make confused with //a style drive specifiers To: Graham Dumpleton Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii You need to read the FAQ concerning the environment variable MAKE_MODE. ---Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > Came across the following problem in B20 which I believe should work. With > a makefile of: > > need1 := g:/a g:/b g:/c g:/d g:/e g:/f > > all1 : $(need1) > > $(need1) : % : > @echo $@ > > need2 := //g/a //g/b //g/c //g/d //g/e //g/f > > all2 : $(need2) > > $(need2) : % : > @echo $@ > > When I run "make all1" I get. > > g:/a > g:/b > g:/c > g:/d > g:/e > g:/f > > When I run "make all2" I get. > > make: *** No rule to make target `//g/a', needed by `all2'. Stop. > > If you use -p option to look at what is going on you will find that make > seems to be incorrectly concatenating adjacent targets together when "//g" > is used instead of "g:". > > all2: //g/a //g/b //g/c //g/d //g/e //g/f > # Command-line target. > # Implicit rule search has been done. > # File does not exist. > # File has not been updated. > > //g/a //g/b: > # Implicit rule search has not been done. > # Implicit/static pattern stem: `//g/a //g/b' > # Modification time never checked. > # File has not been updated. > # commands to execute (from `foo.mk', line 13): > @echo $@ > > Since the rule which is set up seems to have a target of "//g/a //g/b", > there is no separate targets for either "//g/a" or "//g/b" and thus make > doesn't know how to build them, or something like that. > > -- > Graham Dumpleton (grahamd AT nms DOT otc DOT com DOT au) > == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com