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weird error(?) in "-f" option ????
From: |
Robert P. J. Day |
Subject: |
weird error(?) in "-f" option ???? |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:52:12 -0500 (GMT-05:00) |
ok, i've just run across something that is confusing the heck out of me.
in testing the snippet in the make manual for overriding part of another
makefile, i wrote the following makefile:
$ cat mk1
foo:
@echo building foo in mk1.
@touch foo
%: force
@echo Invoking makefile mk2 for target address@hidden
@${MAKE} -f mk2 $@
force: ;
i also have a trivial "mk2" file, but what's baffling is what happens
when i run the following command:
$ make -f mk1 foo
Invoking makefile mk2 for target mk1. ???? what the ... ????
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/make'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `mk1'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/make'
make: `foo' is up to date.
$
how is it that the value of the "-f" option is being picked up as
a *target* to be processed in that first makefile mk1? i'm confused.
am i doing something thoroughly stupid here? i have no idea how to
interpret this output.
rday
- weird error(?) in "-f" option ????,
Robert P. J. Day <=