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SimpleGuy
SimpleGuy

Reputation: 2894

Make not picking the needed target

I have written a make file for a program as under

Panther!simpleguy:~/Code [62]$ cat make.def

CC = gcc
LIBS = -lpthread
CODE_FILE = Code_In_C.c
EXECUTABLE = Code_In_C

all : ${CODE_FILE}
        ${CC} -o ${EXECUTABLE} ${LIBS} ${CODE_FILE}

I tried to make it using below command

Panther!simpleguy:~/Code [63]$ make all make.def
make: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.

Why is it not picking 'all' which is defined in make file (make.def) ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Sourav Ghosh
Sourav Ghosh

Reputation: 134326

As per the online GNU Make manual,

Normally you should call your makefile either makefile or Makefile.

and

If you want to use a nonstandard name for your makefile, you can specify the makefile name with the -f or --file option. The arguments -f name or --file=name tell make to read the file name as the makefile.

So, you should use the following syntax to specify a makefile with nonstandard name

make -f make.def all

Upvotes: 2

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