On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 05:45 PM, Alex S wrote: > The make command will take the argument typically used to specify a > "tag" in the make file, and interpret it to mean the filename of a > makefile, if the file exists.
> Well... I hope I've thoroughly confused you. :) Sorry to disappoint you, then... Your explanation made perfect sense. :-) It's surprising that make would behave this way, though. Why would make assume that "install" really means "-f install," when there's a target named "install" in the default makefile? I can see why it would revert to trying that if it couldn't find a makefile, or couldn't find an "install" target, but why would it second guess perfectly correct input? That's just bizarre. At any rate, the suggested workaround is a great idea. I'd even go further than that, and add the .txt extension to *all* of the plain text files, rather than just INSTALL, so that users of GUI-based systems see an icon indicating that they're text files, and so that when they click on them they open in their preferred editor. sherm-- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time.
