On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:40:57 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
Here's the error message I'm getting. I know basically nothing about
make except
that it's a build system and that it almost never works, so I can't
even begin to
debug this. Here's the error message I've been getting, on a freshly
unpacked
2.047 directory on some ancient Linux distro that my sys admin insists
on using:
$ make -flinux.mak
make --no-print-directory -f OS=posix BUILD=release
make[1]: OS=posix: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `OS=posix'. Stop.
make: *** [release] Error 2
The "OS=posix" sets the macro OS to the value posix, it does not set the
target. This has been a feature of make since at least the 1980's,
earlier than Linux even existed. So I'm astonished you're seeing this
error.
The issue is the -f is passed a blank argument. Probably in linux.mak,
it's calling something like this:
make --no-print-directory -f $(SUB_MAKE_FILE) OS=$(OS) BUILD=release
or something like that, and SUB_MAKE_FILE isn't being set for some reason.
I think make is interpreting that OS=posix as a makefile to use.
-Steve
