From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:43:39 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [compile error] No rule to make target '.depend',
	needed by libul2410.a
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Dear yihect,

In message <6844533.158031222572464438.JavaMail.coremail@app155.163.com> you wrote:
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/yihect/.../u-boot-1.3.4/post'
> make -C board/ul2410/
> make[1]:Entering direcotory '/home/.../board/ul2410'
> make[1]:*** No rule to make target '.depend', needed by 'libul2410.a'. Stop.
> make[1]:Leaving directory.....
> make: *** .... Error 2

That means that there is aproblem withyour adaptions. 

>  After catting the Makefile in /board/ul2410 dir, it seems that the $(obj)  is expanded to some blank space. That's why?

No. for nowmal builds this is OK. Try an out-of-tree build (like
running "make O=/tmp/foo ...", and you will see the difference.

>  I'm still a newbie to makefile, so can anybody help me? Any suggestion is appericated too. Thanks.

We have zewro information, so we cannot help any better.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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