Re: [9fans] mk surprises me

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

Someone more knowledgeable will surely correct me, if needed.
Don't you need to include one of the general mk 'rule templates'
(mkone, mkmany or such)? At least, that's what I recall seeing in
the plan 9 source tree, and in a similar way in the drawterm source.

Axel.

> mk does not do what i expect it to do. here are some facts:
> 
> 
> the mkfile
> 
> % : hdr.h
> 
> % : %.c
> 	cp $stem.c $target
> 
> 
> the files
> -rw-rw-r--   1 eleberg  avall          0 Mar 20 15:47 f2.c
> -rw-rw-r--   1 eleberg  avall          0 Mar 27 13:12 f2
> -rw-rw-r--   1 eleberg  avall          0 Mar 27 13:17 hdr.h
> 
> 
> the test
> ; inferno/Solaris/sparc/bin/mk -f mkfile f2
> mk: no recipe to make 'f2.c'
> 
> 
> according to my interpretation of 'maintaining files on plan9 with mk'
> (from plan9v2 documentation), page 188, the mkfile should produce f2
> from f2.c if hdr.h is younger then f2. but instead i get the error
> message above that i do not understand.
> is there anybody that sees where i go wrong?
> 
> possible sources of errors:
> i use mk from inferno, not plan9
> i have only the plan9v2 documentation, not v3 documentation.
> i am not very good with mkfiles
> 
> 
> bengt
>