Re: no rule to make asm targets

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Jari,

Please keep the mailing list in Cc:.  Thanks.

* Jari Strand wrote on Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:09:10PM CET:
> >From: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
> >* Jari Strand wrote on Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:08:04PM CET:
> >>
> >> ..asm.o:
> >
> >This line should be (minus the indentation):
> >  .asm.o:

> >>    nasm -o $@ -f elf -dLINUX $<
> >
> >If you do the effort of defining NASM_PATH above, then you should use it
> >here, no?
> >        $(NASM_PATH) -o $@ -f elf -dLINUX $<
> >
> 
> Are you saying that there should be no identation after the 
> .asm.o: line?

No.  The error you made was the doubled period.  Instead of writing
this:
..asm.o:
        $(NASM_PATH) -o $@ -f elf -dLINUX $<


You should be writing this:
.asm.o:
        $(NASM_PATH) -o $@ -f elf -dLINUX $<

(I was merely trying to point out that my post contained indentation).

And it seems I forgot to add that you need to set the suffixes list.
In a plain Makefile, you'd do that with this line:

.SUFFIXES: .asm .o

In a Makefile.am, you instead write this:

SUFFIXES = .asm .o

This helps automake detect the list of suffixes; it will then set it
correctly for make.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf