Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:41:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mike McLean <libolt AT primenet DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Makefile
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On 15 Feb 1998, Mike McLean wrote:

> characte.cc:  characte.o
> 	gxx -c characte.cc

These rules are backwards.  "foo: bar" means that `foo' is made from
`bar' (or, more generally, depends on it), not the other way around.
So you should say "characte.o: characte.cc".

Other related issues:

      1) You should use `gcc' to compile, not `gxx'.  The latter is
         for linking C++ programs; if you use it for compilation (with
         -c switch), it will print a warning which is harmless, but
         annoying.

      2) Actually, you don't need to write rules for generating .o
         files from .cc files at all: Make already knows that.  So all
         you need is the first rule from your Makefile which shows how
         to build the program from the object files.  Make will figure
         out the rest itself.