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

[Daniel B. Thurman]

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...


> 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'


> 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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