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% vs. "No rule to make target"
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jidanni |
Subject: |
% vs. "No rule to make target" |
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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:49:35 +0800 |
All is well:
$ cat Makefile
all:z.bak
%.bak:;
$ make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Until we add a %:
$ cat Makefile
all:z.bak
%.bak:%;
$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `z.bak', needed by `all'. Stop.
Suddenly it can't find the rule anymore. Or prints the wrong message.
Indeed, instead of % use
%.bak:some_file_that_exists;
No problem. But
%.bak:some_file_that_does_not_exist;
then make says it can't find the rule to make target z.bak, when it
should say it can't find the rule to make target some_file_that_does_not_exist,
which it does when one uses
z.bak:some_file_that_does_not_exist;
Maybe the story lies on Info page "10.8 Implicit Rule Search Algorithm"
and maybe -d showing "Avoiding implicit rule recursion." is a clue.
Anyway, I'm not one of the 0.1% of the population to be able to
comprehend all these things. GNU Make 3.81
- % vs. "No rule to make target",
jidanni <=
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", jidanni, 2008/06/08
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", Paul Smith, 2008/06/08
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", jidanni, 2008/06/09
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", Paul Smith, 2008/06/09
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", jidanni, 2008/06/09
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", Paul Smith, 2008/06/09
- Re: % vs. "No rule to make target", jidanni, 2008/06/09