[10543] in Athena Bugs
make gives wrong error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gsstark@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 8 17:47:48 1993
From: gsstark@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 17:47:37 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, rs6000-comments@Athena.MIT.EDU
; cd /tmp
; touch MAkefile
; touch Makefile
; cat Makefile
; make
Make: makefile is null.
Quitting.
; cp ~/lib/wm/Makefile /tmp/
; cat Makefile
.ctwmrc: .wmrc.cpp
/mit/gsstark/scripts/mkwmrc -Dctwm .ctwmrc
.vtwmrc: .wmrc.cpp
/mit/gsstark/scripts/mkwmrc -Dvtwm -Dgamma .vtwmrc
.twmrc: .wmrc.cpp
/mit/gsstark/scripts/mkwmrc -Dtwm .twmrc
; make
Make: There must be a file named makefile or Makefile
in the current directory or an existing description file
listed after the -f flag.
Quitting.
listed after the -f flag.
Quitting.
This is wrong, there was a perfectly fine Makefile,
it was just that no rules applied to the null target.
ie. there was no default rule, and the target was null.
very confusing,
it should have said ``nothing to do'' or ``no rules apply''
or something like that
