[bug #22434] Consider a dependancy as target file and try to make the file

[Paul D. Smith]

Update of bug #22434 (project make):

                  Status:                    None => Not A Bug              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #6:

This problem is happening because in your Viewer.cpp file you say:

#include "Viewer"

Because of this, when automake generates the automated prerequisites for the
.o file (in src/.deps/) one of the prerequisites is the simple word "Viewer".

When make sees that prerequisite, it tries to build it.  Make has no idea
that you really mean a header file here that it can't see: it looks for a file
"Viewer" and one doesn't exist, so it tries to build it.  Make has a built-in
rule that says "you can build any program FOO from FOO.cpp", and since it
wants to build Viewer and it finds a Viewer.cpp... voila.  It tries to compile
it and fails.

This may or may not be a bug, but if it is it's a problem in automake's
automated dependency generation, not GNU make.

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