Re: please help me

[Bryan Ischo]

On 12/18/11 05:16, Khadigeh Beiranvand wrote:
> Hi
> When I typping make clean in terminal,The following message is 
> issued:address@hidden:~/ptsgcodes/xpdp1/src$ make clean
> rm: cannot remove `*~': No such file or directory
> make: *** [clean] Error 1
> my makefile is:

>                  @rm *.o *~

The error you are seeing is harmless; it is telling you that it can't 
remove '*~' because that file does not exist.  If you had any files that 
ended in '~' that command would remove them, but when there are none, 
you get this error (because, for reasons I never understood, typical 
Unix shell behavior is for the glob symbol '*' to be used literally if 
there are no matching files).

Change this line to:

    @rm -f *.o *~

This will cause the lack of any file ending in '~' to be silently 
ignored rather than reported as an error.

Bryan