Hi Jayashree, You are posting in an incorrect forum. This is the GCC help forum, not the GNU Make help forum. I do not mention this to chastise, I mention it because it is likely that you will get better, faster, more accurate answers on a GNU Make help forum then here. That being said... This line is malformed: OBJ_MAIN_EOD = $( SRC_MAIN_EOD:.c=.o) You have a space after the open paren. Also, just as a matter of style, I recommend you using this for your eod target: eod: $(OBJ_MAIN_EOD) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^ $(INCLUDE) -L. -L$(ORACLE_HOME)/lib32/ $(LIBPATH) See 'automatic variables' in http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/ Also, my personal preference is to have all builds explicit (either ordinary targets, or pattern rule targets), instead of relying on the implicit %.o : %.c pattern rule. But that's just me, and I only mention it for your consideration. HTH, --Eljay
