On 2022-08-04, Travis Pressler via Discussion list for automake <automake@gnu.org> wrote: > I'm learning how to make an autotools project and have created a test > project to work with. I ran make with a directory `nested` and then deleted > it and deleted the reference to it in my `Makefile.am`. > > Now I'm running ./configure && make and I get the following: > > *** No rule to make target 'nested/main.c', needed by 'main.o'. Stop. > > How can I run `make` so that it doesn't reference this old nested > directory?
Sounds like just some stale dependencies left over from a prior version. Running "make distclean" should delete all the automatically generated dependency information and allow the package to be rebuilt normally. Enabling the Automake subdir-objects feature probably would avoid the specific scenario that led to your stale dependency problem. Hope that helps, Nick
