Re: make query

[Tzafrir Cohen]

A small note:

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:36:40PM +0100, nikhil sharma wrote:
> hi,
> 1)this is my first mail ..i wanna know why the below
> makefile works on solaris and not on linux..is ther
> any solution through which without manually changing
> makefile  we can run this makefile without error on
> linux.
> 
> makefile is like:
> 
> SOURCES=test_make.c test_make1.c
> OBJS=$(SOURCES:%.c=%.o)
> all:$(OBJS)
> $(OBJS):
>         $(COMPILE.c) $<

"$<" should be empty on a rule without requirements, right?
Anyway, this is basically a shell-script makefile: much simpler to write
as a shell script.

> clean:
>         rm -f test_make.o test_make1.o
> 
> this is not working on solaris because target is
> present but dependency is not present..
> if someone changed the gnu make code to work fr
> that..then plz send me that version of make..
> 
> 2)i wanted the list of differences between solaris
> make and gnu make ..because my project is somewhat
> change the gnu make so that it should work as solaris
> make..

Why? :-(

Also: is the bsd make (pmake, on linux systems) closer to the solaris
make?

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