On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Rob Juergens <rjuerg...@esri.com> wrote: > Given the make file (makefile): > > ---------------------------------- > foo : bar > ---------------------------------- > > gmake 3.75 gives this: > > gmake: *** No rule to make target 'bar', needed by 'foo'. Stop. > > gmake 4.0 gives this: > > gmake: ***. stop. > > This has caused a lot of time trying to figure out what is wrong with the > makefile. A big step backward in error reporting. > > Please fix this.
I am unable to reproduce this: : morgaine; ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 guenther wheel 10 Apr 7 21:22 Makefile : morgaine; cat Makefile foo : bar : morgaine; gmake --version GNU Make 4.0 Built for x86_64-unknown-openbsd5.5 Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. : morgaine; gmake gmake: *** No rule to make target 'bar', needed by 'foo'. Stop. : morgaine; What information about your situation did you leave out? Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make