On 11/27/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:16:25PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Also, all files that gcc outputs are of the name a.out. I want it to > > give the .out file the original name of the file, with a .out. I have > > manned and discovered the -o option, whereby I can specify a filename, > > but I would prefer that it would read the original filename and use > > that. For instance: > > $gcc mycode.c > > $ls > > mycode.c mycode.out > > How can I encourage this behaviour? Thank you. > > > Oh, hey, I missed this part of the question. There's a neat trick if you > have GNU Make, which you do on Fedora (and just about any Linux distro). > If you have a simple C program with just one source file and no special > linking needs, you can do this: > > make mycode > > Note not mycode.c -- it'll automatically figure out that it can make the > executable mycode from mycode.c. And you don't even have to have a Makefile! > That looks like what I'm looking for. When I did make file (not file.c) I was informed that the file is already up to date. I checked man make and I didn't see any information on how to compile, although it does say that it is dealing with C files. I tried googling for info.make but I can't get my hands on it. I want to say thanks again for helping me on this OT thread. I learned more from everybody's responses than I did in class! Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_is_a_cellphone.html =
