Greetings,
I am trying to compile only some parts of kdebase and package them as
rpm, listing them in the inst-apps file.
The compilation fails with the following message below. What does "no
rule to make target" means? I have obviously forgotten something, but
what?
Any help or pointer is really appreciated.
I can send other info offlist, just ask, I didn't want to send too
much stuff on a list.
TIA,
Marco
/bin/sh /libtool g++ -DNDEBUG
-DNDEBUG -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -fno-exceptions
-fno-check-new -fno-common -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common
-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE
-DQT_NASCII_CAST -DQT_NSTL -DQT_NCMPAT -DQT_NTRANSLATIN
-o libdmctl.la -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-no-undefined -Wl, -Wl, dmctl.lo
-lkdecore
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/'
Making all in kioslave
make[2]: Entering directory
`/'
make[2]: No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/'
make[1]: [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/'
make: [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /
(%build)

Tuesday 12 July 2005 4:27 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:

The compilation fails with the following message below. What does "no
rule to make target" means? I have obviously forgotten something, but
what?

Howdy Marco!

Usually, "no rule to make target" means that something is missing from the
makefile, or that the makefile itself is missing.

make[2]: No rule to make target `all'. Stop.

This usually means that the Makefile is missing for that subdirectory.

I ran into something like this once where I did 'svn up' and then tried to do
a rebuild. Somehow in the update I ended up with a blank Makefile.in or
Makefile.am which fooled the automake process.

I worked around it by running the 'svn-clean' script, and then starting over
with the build. The 'svn-clean' script clears out *everything* that's not in
the subversion repository.

HTH!