From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: make doesnt make what it should
Date: 9 Feb 2000 14:15:38 GMT
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Guido Sassmannshausen (sassi AT sedan DOT uni-osnabrueck DOT de) wrote:
: Preface: I read the FAQ, read the available newsgroups, but still I'm stuck.

: Situation:
: I have one large project consisting of multiple files, so I _HAVE_ to use
: make. But although a "makefile"-file exists in the working directory, i get
: a message "no makefile found". Trying other names for it (GNUmakefile etc..)
: didn't work too.
: As I get an error from gdb too, that it can't find a certaim binary, and it
: uses the unix type of path names ( '/' instead of '\') I think both problems
: share the same quirk of dos/win filesystem.

: How can I convince those programs to find my files?

How did you verify that the makefile exists? (You didn't happen to use
notepad, did you?)

Do a "dir makefile" and see if it really exists. 

(Notepad is not a good choice as I've heard it doesn't put <TAB>s in
the output, which make requires.)


Right,

							MartinS