Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:01:13 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Michal Mertl cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: makefile problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Michal Mertl wrote: > When I run make it compiles everything and then executes rm -f $(TESTOBJS). > Why is that ? Add -d to the Make command line, redirect its stdout and stderr to a file, and you should be able to understand why does it run that command by examining the (voluminous) trace of Make's decision-making process.