make scripts are bizzare under Debian.

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

Hi.

I'm trying to run a make script on a Debian machine, and it is behaving
in the *most* weird way.

We have a tree of source code with makefiles in all the appropriate
places, and it works fine on our RedHat systems. We are now trying to
get it to work on a Debian machine, where it starts to behave strangely.
here's how:

If I go to the top of the source tree, and do:

make clean

everything behaves itself fine.

If, however, I run the make script like this:

./debian/rules.pmf clean

then it errors in all the directories, saying "no rule to make target
`w'"

We initialy started with a full debian template make script, but have
ended up removing almost everything in it and we now have this as the
entire rules.pmf script:

<snip>

#!/usr/bin/make -f

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
DH_VERBOSE=1

clean:
        $(MAKE) "clean"

</snip>

the exact output we get is this:

<snip>

po:~/viss-1.5.2# debian/rules.pmf clean

/usr/bin/make "clean"
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/viss-1.5.2'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/viss-1.5.2/shared'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `w'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/viss-1.5.2/shared'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/viss-1.5.2/utils'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `w'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/viss-1.5.2/utils'

...repeated for each directory until...

make[1]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/viss-1.5.2'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

po:~/viss-1.5.2#

</snip>


As you can see, it's definitley trying to run "make clean" but somewhere
"clean" gets turnes into "w."

Anybody got any idea at all why it's doing this?


tks.

Paul.



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