Re: can't always get make to auto create build directory

2016-06-29 Thread LMH
forum. I have no idea why this happened. I can, of course, include a copy of the makefile if the information I provided in the post above is not sufficient, just let me know. Thanks for taking the time to look at this, LMH ___ Help-make mailing lis

Re: can't always get make to auto create build directory

2016-06-29 Thread LMH
but I guess that is what happened. I can re-send the message as a plain text email if users really don't want to go to nabble.com to see what I posted. Is nabble not considered a safe site? LMH ___ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://

Re: can't always get make to auto create build directory

2016-06-29 Thread LMH
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 12:41 -0400, LMH wrote: Apparently the forum I posted to forwards posts to a mailing list. The GNU/FSF mailing lists have existed since the 1990's. In that time various external sites have come along and begun mirroring the mailing lists, and so

Re: can't always get make to auto create build directory

2016-06-29 Thread LMH
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 14:03 -0400, LMH wrote: #create build directory if it doesn't exist $(BDIR): @mkdir -p $(BDIR) all: $(BDIR)/SMD2_i386.exe Here you've created a target $(BDIR), but your "all" target depends only on the object file $(BDIR)/S