Re: gEDA-user: Makefile errors

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:14am, Robert Schoen wrote:
> first off let me oppologize, I am a newbie and on my way to converting 
> to
> linux, so this problem may seem a little elementary.  MS windows, VB, 
> SQL i
> know, but, this is all together different..
> I have gotten a series of errors when I run the makefile that I believe 
> may be
> related to the shell I am running or a missing shell.  I have been 
> getting a
> series of errors lile this.
> [root@192 geda-20030901]# ./Makefile
> ./Makefile: line 1: VERSION: command not found
...

  You don't run Makefiles directly...they are input files for the "make" 
program.  To use a Makefile, tyoe "make" and hit return...it will read 
and use a file called "Makefile" (or "makefile") in the current 
directory.

   -Dave