On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 21:09 -0700, Peter Lawrence wrote: > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `real-install-headers-tar'. Stop.
This is printed when you've invoked make and the target you asked for on the command line cannot be created (for example you ran "make foo" but the makefile has no target "foo" defined). There's no line number or filename information to provide, here, because the request came from the command line, not from inside the makefile. > here is where the offending command originates: > > $(MAKE) real-$(INSTALL_HEADERS_DIR) DESTDIR=`pwd`/../gcc/ \ > libsubdir=. ; \ So the sub-make is the one that generated the error message, and as I mentioned it can't give you information about what line of the parent make's makefile was the problem (just like your C compiler has no way to tell you what line of the makefile it was invoked from). All that could be done in this case is that the parent make could be asked to show filename/linenumber information for the target that failed (that is, the error after the error you quote above). I'm certainly not asserting that GNU make couldn't do a better job giving error messages with more details regarding where the error happened, I'm just saying that this particular case is not quite so clear-cut as it may appear at first. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psm...@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
