From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: make doesnt make what it should Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <87rr2a$l5f$1 AT newsserver DOT rrzn DOT uni-hannover DOT de> <87rsqa$j4t$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 X-Trace: /bV2/7qQRWH7pIrsvML6BXp46+rAjXiQDVZzj7ftD/dkwvUI9yk0VQ15KW3G59mXuOlzusUs5U3n!FgmmG8s+Y0kqFM4KT7DRUThx4VDFCXZkU0D+/vXcHg1PA0L1cRxp5yUoeWKnYJ7r0rU8UKQH+2Fk!ksZHqf0= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:21:24 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:21:24 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 9 Feb 2000 14:15:38 GMT, eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote: >Guido Sassmannshausen (sassi AT sedan DOT uni-osnabrueck DOT de) wrote: >: But although a "makefile"-file exists in the working directory, >: i get a message "no makefile found". > >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. Do you find a makefile.txt if you "dir makefile.*"? >(Notepad is not a good choice as I've heard it doesn't >put s in the output, which make requires.) This is a "known issue" in GNU make. Or is "this behavior ... by design"? Actually, Notepad does make real tabs; I just checked. It's edit.com that spaces them. However, Notepad does append ".txt" to your filename if you don't enclose it in quotes in the "Save As..." dialog. When I need to make some quick changes to a makefile, and I'm not running GNU Emacs for Windows, I pull up a Notepad. >Right, -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html