Re: another silly question

[Adam Fedor]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 08:03 PM, Pete French wrote:
>
> > how do I get a makefil to work that sint called GNUmakefile ?
> >
> > I tryed 'gmake -f mymakefile' and it does not work. which is somewhat
> > frustrating to say the least...
>
>
> I'd be interested in that too.
> Unfortunately Nicola, our makefiles expert, is on holiday for a few 
> weeks now.
> Perhaps someone else knows?

I think you can put

MAKEFILE_NAME=mymakefile

in your makefile. Although it might expect that name in any sub-project 
makfiles you have.

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