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Subject: Re: Trouble with make
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:27:38 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>
>On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, SpamKiLr wrote:
>
>> No, it's not a "Missing separator. Stop." :-)
>> 
>> It appears to be a bug with a variable in a dependency. I have
>> something like:
>[snip]
>> If I replace $(VAR1) with the actual path and filename in the
>> dependency list for "all" I get "No rule to make target
>> foo/bar/baz.quux. Stop." or the like. This despite there being in the
>> makefile something like:
>
>All these ``something like''s might well hide the real problem.  It is 
>always best to post the exact Makefile in its entirety.
>
>You could try invoking Make with the -d switch.  It produces humongously 
>voluminous output, but it usually tells you why Make didn't think your 
>target needed updating.  If you cannot figure it out, post the output of 
>"make -d" and the full Makefile here.

OK, thanks.