Re: Help on Compilation of Octave

[Arthur W. Green]

on 9/06/2000 19:45, address@hidden wrote:

> "Arthur W. Green" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> Would anyone else have any other suggestions in regard to my problem
>> (continued from my previous post)?
> 
> What version of make are you running.  This can often be a problem.  You
> can find out by executing 'make --version' if it prints something
> simialr to:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
> Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> then you are OK.  Otherwise you will need to get gnu make via one of the
> GNU mirrors(ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/gnu/make/ for example.)
> 
> I have never seen this error before so this is just a guess.   Since the
> "make -f octMakefile"  occurs so early in the build process I figure it
> is a reasonable guess.
> 
> Good luck.  

Perhaps you and Mr. Tomasini make an excellent point. Because I cannot seem
to even pull up a version with either '--version' or '-v' (which is what is
listed in the man page on the system. I attributed to this to my own
ignorance, and perhaps this is not so much the case afterall.

After either 'make --version' or 'make -v' I receive:
> make: no target to make.

So, I presume either I did something wrong or I need to update the make I am
working with. =)


-- Art



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