[fedora-java] Unable to GNU AutoBuild a simple HelloWorld console application

[Jeff Johnston]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:20 -0800, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> > I am testing Eclipse on F8, and I have checkout HelloWorld
>> > from my SVN repository and into my workspace, choosing
>> > GNU AutoBuild but apparently it is unable to auto-build.
>> >
>> > The error I have reported is:
>> >
>> > **** Clean-only build of configuration Build (GNU) for project
>> > HelloWorld ****
>> >
>> > make -k distclean
>> > make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.
>> > Buildfile generation error occurred..
>> > Not possible to generate Makefile and no existing Makefile found
>> > Build stopped..
>> >
>> > So what is the problem
>> >  
>>
>> A GNU Autotools project expects an existing project to have a configure
>> script or autogen.sh that is used to configure and ultimately generate
>> the Makefile.  If you do not have these files and don't plan on adding
>> them,  you should use either the regular Managed Make project which will
>> create a Makefile for you, or the Std Make project which expects you to
>> have a Makefile.
>>
> >From what I can tell, when I checked out HelloWorld  from SVN repository,
> I had chosen the Project Wizard, the Wizard gave me two choices.
> (1) C Project or (2) GNU C Autotools Project.  I chosed (2). Then entered
> "HelloWorld" as the Workspace name, then the configuration Project
> Type says: "GNU Autotools" and Build(GNU) is checked, then left the
> Additional Settings alone and clicked 'Finish".
>
> That is now I ended up with the above reported error.
> I assume this is what you mean by 'Managed Make"?
>
> As far as I can tell, there is no 'Managed Make" that I can see...
Old terminology.  You want C Project - > Executable.  If you look at 
Help -> Cheat Sheets -> C/C++ Development you will find a "Creating 
C/C++ Projects" topic.  Follow this as it creates the Hello World 
example you want.
>
>> Regarding the clean behavior, the Autotools project default is to do a
>> make distclean which is a standard target in a generated Makefile for an
>> autotools project.  If one goes to Project ->Properties->C/C++
>> Build->Settings->Autotools tab you will find settings for the clean
>> behavior.  You can change this to make clean or have the build directory
>> simply deleted.  The distclean target deletes all files created by the
>> build and leaves others alone.  This is useful when one wants to
>> configure/build directly in the source directory.
>>
>
> I tried both clean and disclean - same error except that the 'disclean'
> rule does not appear in 'clean'
>
No point as you don't have a Makefile.
>> The error message was given because it could not find a Makefile in your
>> project and there were no configuration files to generate one from.
>
> Yes, that is correct - there is  no Makefile that is generated or 
> existing.  I am
> trying to get the 'Managed Make' to work - but cannot tell how to do this.
>
> Thanks for responding,
> Dan
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