Hi. This make file should work. Indeed its syntax is old. GNU make style for implicit rules is described here http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Implicit-Rules I added little example below. You could me answered much better here http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=make Regards, Dima. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM, mahmoodn <nt_mahmood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > I have an old makefile and I want to run it but it can not be "make"ed. How > can I convert it to current version of makefile?:confused: > .H.h: > m4 ${MACROS} $*.H > $*.h %.h : %.H m4 ${MACROS} $< > $@