Thu 2003-06-19 17:03, Wes Garland (1:106/2000) wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 WG> Here's one you won't find in the manual:
 WG>  
 WG> # touch Makefile
 WG> # make myprogram
 WG>  
 WG> This will build "myprogram" from "myprogram.c",
assuming you have
 WG> GNU Make and a reasonable system configuration. Touching the
 WG> Makefile merely creates a Makefile with no rules, so the implicity
 WG> rules kick in.

You probably don't even need the makefile:

16:30 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~/src]mkdir blah
16:30 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~/src]cd blah
16:31 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~/src/blah]echo "int main(void) { return 0;
}" > blah.c
16:31 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~/src/blah]gmake blah
cc     blah.c   -o blah

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