On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:52 +0200, bestellrep1 wrote:
> Please keep my email-address confidential, as I don't want to get spam.
Sorry, but this is a mailing list. Anyone can subscribe. Plus it's
archived in numerous places, all of which are publicly available and
searchable.
> The command (1)
> make elf
> gives the result "make: *** No rule to make target `elf'. Stop."
> when no makefile exists.
>
> The command (2)
> make -f mmm aaa
> gives the result
> make: mmm: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `mmm'. Stop.
>
> I'd prefer to get the "No such file or directory" in every case
> when the makefile is not found.
This can't be done for various reasons:
1. It's not an error to have no makefile: make has builtin rules
that are quite capable of doing useful work without any makefile
being present in the directory.
2. Make can read various different files as makefiles: Makefile,
makefile, and GNUmakefile. All of them are optional. It's not
correct to show an error for any file that's missing.
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