Subj : Re: Makefile
To   : comp.programming
From : =?iso-8859-1?q?Asbj=F8rn_S=E6b=F8?=
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 12:27 pm

Christian Christmann <plfriko@yahoo.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> my Makefile contains this section:
> 
> 	clean:
>           	rm -f *.s ...
> 
> However, when there are no *.s files in the current
> directory gmake issues a warning:
> 
> rm: cannot remove `*.s': No such file or directory
> gmake: *** [clean] Error 1


Strange.  I used the "-f" option just to get rid of that kind of
errors.  

asbjs@ansatt20:~/tmp$ ls *.o
ls: *.o: No such file or directory
asbjs@ansatt20:~/tmp$ rm *.o
rm: cannot remove `*.o': No such file or directory
asbjs@ansatt20:~/tmp$ rm -f *.o
asbjs@ansatt20:~/tmp$         


Asbjørn
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Asbjørn Sæbø, post.doc. 
Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
<URL: http://www.q2s.ntnu.no/ >

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