Problems with make

[Momchil Velikov]

>>>>> "Rupert" == Rupert Wood <me@rupey.net> writes:

Rupert> Kabir Patel wrote:
>> The makefile has the following :
>> 
>> ex2: ex1.c
>> gcc ex1.c -o ex2
>> 
>> and nothing else.
>> When I run >>make makefile
>> I always get the same message, namely:
>> 
>> make: Nothing to be done for `makefile'.

Rupert> You need to tell make what you'd like it to build. If you don't specify
Rupert> anything then it assumes a target 'all' which doesn't exist in your
Rupert> makefile.

Actually it picks up the first target, no need for ``all''.

The problem is that there's no dependency upon the Makefile itself.