Unable to GNU AutoBuild a simple HelloWorld console application
 

Title: Re: [fedora-java] Unable to GNU AutoBuild a simple HelloWorld console application






On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:20 -0800, Jeff Johnston wrote:


Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

> I am testing Eclipse on F8, and I have checkout HelloWorld

> from my SVN repository and into my workspace, choosing

> GNU AutoBuild but apparently it is unable to auto-build.

>

> The error I have reported is:

>

> **** Clean-only build of configuration Build (GNU) for project

> HelloWorld ****

>

> make -k distclean

> make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.

> Buildfile generation error occurred..

> Not possible to generate Makefile and no existing Makefile found

> Build stopped..

>

> So what is the problem

>**



A GNU Autotools project expects an existing project to have a configure

script or autogen.sh that is used to configure and ultimately generate

the Makefile.* If you do not have these files and don't plan on adding

them,* you should use either the regular Managed Make project which will

create a Makefile for you, or the Std Make project which expects you to

have a Makefile.




>From what I can tell, when I checked out HelloWorld* from SVN repository,

I had chosen the Project Wizard, the Wizard gave me two choices.

(1) C Project or (2) GNU C Autotools Project.* I chosed (2). Then entered

"HelloWorld" as the Workspace name, then the configuration Project

Type says: "GNU Autotools" and Build(GNU) is checked, then left the

Additional Settings alone and clicked 'Finish".



That is now I ended up with the above reported error.

I assume this is what you mean by 'Managed Make"?



As far as I can tell, there is no 'Managed Make" that I can see...




Regarding the clean behavior, the Autotools project default is to do a

make distclean which is a standard target in a generated Makefile for an

autotools project.* If one goes to Project ->Properties->C/C++

Build->Settings->Autotools tab you will find settings for the clean

behavior.* You can change this to make clean or have the build directory

simply deleted.* The distclean target deletes all files created by the

build and leaves others alone.* This is useful when one wants to

configure/build directly in the source directory.






I tried both clean and disclean - same error except that the 'disclean'

rule does not appear in 'clean'




The error message was given because it could not find a Makefile in your

project and there were no configuration files to generate one from.




Yes, that is correct - there is* no Makefile that is generated or existing.* I am

trying to get the 'Managed Make' to work - but cannot tell how to do this.



Thanks for responding,

Dan


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