From: Richard Legner <rlegner AT whitehorse DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: MAKEing trouble
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 02:18:03 -0600
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Hello again,

I have recently started to experiment with Make.

I created the following makefile:

#make list.exe
list.exe: list.cpp swap.cpp
	gxx -o list.exe list.o swap.o
swap.o: swap.cpp
	gcc -c swap.cpp
list.o: list.cpp
	gcc -c list.cpp

The problem:

When I run Make, it only looks at the first dependency and executes the
first command (gxx -o list.exe list.o swap.o)

Notes:

1) when I first ran it, it reported 'no such file or directory' error
with respect to list.o and swap.o

2) I manually created the above object files (for debugging purposes)
and now the executable gets built when I run make.

3) when I run Make twice in a row (without modifying the two object
files in between , it still rebuilds the executable.

4) when I make changes to list.cpp and swap.cpp and then run Make, the
executable gets rebuilt with the old abject files (Make does not update
the object files with the most recent changes to cpp files)

5) I am not changing the system time - that is not the problem.

6) Yes, those are actual TAB characters in front of the commands, not
spaces :)

Where is the problem?

It looks like make does not proceed beyond the first command line.  How
do I fix this?