kswaret 'make distclean'

powadha · 12-14-2003, 07:07 AM

I'm trying to install kswaret as a frontend for swaret. In the readme a command ' make distclean' is given.
Doesn't seem to work I get a:

bash-2.05b# make distclean
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
bash-2.05b#

Am I missing something here?

jailbait · 12-14-2003, 03:30 PM

" In the readme a command ' make distclean' is given. "

The developer can set the makefile up any way that he wants. Most developers use the command "make clean". Try make clean and see if that works. Otherwise you can look at the make command with a text editor and see what the developer really provided.

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xushi · 12-20-2003, 06:39 PM

Tried make distclean, as well as make clean, none of them work...
tried ignoring that, and just going
qmake
make install

still didnt work... =/

powadha · 12-20-2003, 07:01 PM

after that run ./kswaret in the install dir. Only way to get it going

jschiwal · 12-20-2003, 07:16 PM

Read the makefile. You can tell what the targets are. make clean is used to remove temporary object files that are no longer needed. If the make distclean mentioned in the readme was given after the make step, it may not be needed for the program to run, you may just have files around wasting space.

By convention the steps for installing a program from a tarball are:

Code:

1) untar the archive in your home space & cd to the produced directory.
   [b]tar xvzf <filename.tgz>
2) ./configure
3) make
4) su
    <root password>
5) make install

Then the directory produced can be deleted, keeping the original tarball around for emergencies.

Make clean is usually used when you need to keep the source around, as in the kernel source. It guarantees that all of the source files will get re-compiled during the next make.

It would be nice if software authors would stick to convention unless there was a good reason not to!

xushi · 12-20-2003, 07:20 PM

weird... when on the laptop, it refuses to work..
but i just SSHed into it, and ran
make distclean
and it worked...

powadha: just copy kswaret into your local bin directory and it will run wherever you type kswaret.
cp kswaret /usr/local/bin/