Re: still failing to "make" almost-cvs 21.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

[Moving the discussion to the right place.]

> From: address@hidden (David Combs)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:38:02 +0000 (UTC)
> >> 
> >> 275 ==/big7.1/sources-stuff-2/emacs-21.3==> 
> >> 275 ==/big7.1/sources-stuff-2/emacs-21.3==> make bootstrap
> >> (cd src;      make  mostlyclean)
> >> [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
> >
> >Where did that message come from?  The only place I can find it in the
> >CVS is in the nt/gmake.defs file, which should be only used on
> 
> No, not windows, but sparc: sunblade 100.  Weird...  Here's a piece of
> the ./configure-created Makefile (I use "|" instead of ">"):

I believe you, but you still need to find out where that message came
from.  Is it possible that you moved a (possibly partially) configured
source tree from a Windows machine?

> >> Huh?:  "make[1]: *** No rule to make target `mostlyclean'.  Stop."
> >
> >Probably because you didn't run nt/configure.bat, and so there's no
> >Makefile in the `src' directory.
> 
> But there is one, and here's the mostlyclean part of it ("src/Makefile"):

Run Make with the -d option, perhaps that will tell you what's wrong.