I have created and empty program test.c to test the makefile. The
Makefile is as follows:

bla: test.c
        gcc test.c

When I try 'make', it give me the following error:

'ake: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `test.c
It is addressing the first line.

Anyone has an idea what this means ?
Yes, the test.c is in the same dir.

Thanks

I don't know if this will solve your problem, but:

1.) make sure you have a tab, not spaces, before 'gcc'

2.) if you're on Athena, try invoking gmake instead of make

3.) try gcc test.c -o bla

thanks. gmake worked

On May 26, 7:11 pm, Gigi <dand...@gmail.com> wrote:

Il-pacenzja no standard make

Joe

On May 26, 8:36 pm, Lev <matthew.cac...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's Athena's fault sir, I can assure you. In our case it complained
about an unexpected end of line, and the makefile had no problems with
it. It compiled without problems on Poseidon, and I opened the
makefile and checked that there were no issues such as spaces for
tabs, etc. Hu pacenzja and compile with gmake.