Re: MUST GNUstep Makefiles be called GNUmakefile?

[David Ayers]

Björn Giesler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it seems to be necessary to name a GNUstep makefile 'GNUmakefile' and nothing else, otherwise "make" complains with 
>
>         make[1]: GNUmakefile: No such file or directory
>         make[1]: *** No rule to make target `GNUmakefile'.  Stop.
>
> Is there a political or technical reason for this?
The reason GNU make searches for 'GNUmakefile' in preference to 
'Makefile' is technical becuase projects relying on GNU make extensions 
(like I believe GNUstep does).  But GNUmakefiles are not necessarily 
"GNUstep" makefiles. :-)  They are simply makefiles that probably 
require GNU - make.

Any non-option parameter passed to make will be interpreted as a 
target.  If you want to supply a file name to the a custom Makefile, you 
should be able to use the -f option:

make -f MyMakefile  (see: man/info make)

Good Luck!

Cheers,
David