RE: Problem with GNUMake

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Ashish Bajpai (RBIN/JOT3) * wrote:

> yeah...I have not installed rm.exe.......Where can I get that exe from ?
> Is this problem coming because of that? 

Yers, I think so.

> SO, for running GNUMake on Windows, do I need to install all the executables
> required for various functionalities like for deleting files or for some
> other purpose?

You only need those programs that your rules invoke.  This rule:

        clean:
                rm Makefile.mk.bak

invokes the `rm' command, so you need the program that impements it.

> Can't I use the <DEL> command of Command window to serve the same purpose of
> deleting files in my MakeFile?

Yes, just replace "rm" with "del" in the command shown above.