From: Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: using make2
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:25:46 GMT
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arrel AT postoffice DOT pacbell DOT net wrote:
> thank you for responding.
> I'll bet better at this with a little practice

> the make file...
> exp : date1.o emply1.o fig07_04.o
>  gxx -o exp.exe date1.o emply1.o fig07_04.o

> date1.o : date1.cpp date1.h
>  g++ -o date1.cpp emply1.cpp fig07_04.cpp

> emply1.o : emply1.cpp emply1.h date1.h
>  g++ -o  emply1.cpp

> fig07_04.o : fig07_04.cpp emply1.h
>  g++ -o fig07_04.cpp

> the whole error message...
> g++ -o date1.cpp emply1.cpp fig07_04.cpp
> make.exe: *** [date1.o] Error -1
> why would it work only once?

It didn't even work once ;-). Make first display it's command-line,
and then tries to execute it. Have you tried to find a g++ in your PATH
somewhere. (It will probably not be there, so change g++ to gcc in
your makefile.)

hope to help,
 Robert.