Re: make scripts are bizzare under Debian.

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

Forget it - user error (I can't read make files properly... ) 
It works now...

Paul.

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:02, Paul Furness wrote:
> 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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