Re: NU-B question about including other files

[Mike Gibson]

When you don't specify a target on the command line, make assumes that 
you want to build the target for the first rule in the file.  Since:

> exception.o: $(EXCEPTION_H)
>     $(CC) $(JMECFLAGS) -c $(EXCEPTION_C)

is the first rule, that is all it creates.

What most folks do is to create a phony target "all" which depends on 
the file(s) that you want to create by default as the first rule in the 
file:

all : my_app

This will have the effect of trying to make my_app, which will trigger 
the other rules and so forth down the line until make has come up with a 
sequence of commands to run.

Mike Gibson