On 01/04/2012 04:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > And that's the confusion on my end. You are stating that Marvin says > "make it +x" and you are saying it doesn't need to be. I asked this > dumb question to find out how I should treat this situation regardless > of "what works". Its about understanding whether a makefile is an > executable or if make is just treating it as input and the executable > part is under the hood. No.... I'm saying that Marvin first said that the Makefile should be +x but later corrected himself to say that it was /usr/bin/make he was thinking of and that certainly needs to be +x because it is the executable.... [egreshko@f16-2 egreshko]$ file /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/make: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped Again, "Makefile" or "makefile" need not be executable and in fact they aren't meant to be executable. [egreshko@misty transcode-1.0.2]$ chmod +x Makefile [egreshko@misty transcode-1.0.2]$ ./Makefile ./Makefile: line 19: srcdir: command not found ./Makefile: line 20: top_srcdir: command not found ./Makefile: line 22: datadir: command not found ./Makefile: line 22: pkgdatadir: command not found ./Makefile: line 23: libdir: command not found ./Makefile: line 23: pkglibdir: command not found ./Makefile: line 24: includedir: command not found -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
