Re: Creating makefile

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On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 13:19 +0800, Wilson Woon wrote:

Your makefile is variable intensive. When first starting out writing
makefiles, do *not* use 
a lot of variables - you significantly increase
the likelyhood of making basic errors. 

Rewrite the makefile without using variables. Once
it works then write a makefile using variables.

In this case, your error is that you made gcc one
of the target files to be compiled. 


Best regards

Marvin Dickens


> Hi all...
> 
> I have problem creating Makefile to compile my C program files. I have
> two .c and one .h files. Here's my Makefile..
> 
> # use "gcc" to compile source files.
> CC = gcc
> # the linker is also "gcc". It might be something else with other compilers.
> LD = gcc
> # Compiler flags go here.
> CFLAGS = -g -Wall
> # Linker flags go here. Currently there aren't any, but if we'll switch to
> # code optimization, we might add "-s" here to strip debug info and symbols.
> LDFLAGS =
> # use this command to erase files.
> RM = /bin/rm -f
> # list of generated object files.
> OBJS = main.o action.o 
> # program executable file name.
> PROG = result
> 
> # top-level rule, to compile everything.
> all: $(PROG)
> 
> # rule to link the program
> $(PROG): $(OBJS) \
>         $(LD) $(OBJS) -o $(PROG)
> 
> # now comes a meta-rule for compiling any "C" source file.
> %.o: %.c \
>         $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
> 
> # rule for cleaning re-compilable files.
> clean: \
>         $(RM) $(PROG) $(OBJS)
> 
> The main.c and action.c files compiled successfully. However the
> result execution file failed with make: *** No rule to make target
> `gcc', needed by `main.o'.  Stop. error message.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Thank you
> 


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