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Re: Why make isn't running linker


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Why make isn't running linker
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:24:51 -0400

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:32 +0000, sharan basappa wrote:

> all:
> include dir1/dir1.mk
> 
> objects  := $(subst .c,.o,$(sources));
> 
> .PHONY : all
> 
> all :  main
> 
> main : main.o $(objects)

>   Must remake target `main'.
>   Successfully remade target file `main'.

This means that there IS a rule for main, maybe an explicit rule, but
the rule doesn't have any commands associated with it; put another way
it's an empty script.  Maybe you have a straggling TAB character after
the "main" rule?

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