Newbie question / Help with make

Newbie question / Help with make

[RC]

Pardon the newbie question.

I've just downloaded gnu-win32 b18 and am trying to run it on a win95
system.  I've managed to compile a hello.c program, but when I 
try another program I get the following message:

gcc Makefile.c -o Makefile
Makefile.c:2: 'gcc' undeclared here (not in a function)
Makefile.c:2: syntax error before 'PROF'
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 33
MAKE.EXE *** [Makefile] Error 1

What might I have done wrong here?  Any suggestions or pointers in the
right direction would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

RC
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Re: Newbie question / Help with make

[Chris Faylor]

In article < 33A73F35.55B@sprintmail.com >, RC  <telegraph@sprintmail.com> wrote:
>Pardon the newbie question.
>
>I've just downloaded gnu-win32 b18 and am trying to run it on a win95
>system.  I've managed to compile a hello.c program, but when I 
>try another program I get the following message:
>
>gcc Makefile.c -o Makefile
>Makefile.c:2: 'gcc' undeclared here (not in a function)
>Makefile.c:2: syntax error before 'PROF'
>gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 33
>MAKE.EXE *** [Makefile] Error 1
>
>What might I have done wrong here?  Any suggestions or pointers in the
>right direction would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

It is difficult to say what you might have done wrong since you didn't
post the relevant parts of the Makefile, but, at a guess, it looks like
you are not indenting the lines (i.e., gcc) which are intended to be
commands.  A rule should look something like this:

foo.o:	foo.c
	gcc -c $?
^
Tab here.
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