Re: fortran compiler

William,

>Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 15:13:42 -1000
>From: William Yip <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Hawaii, Manoa
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: fortran compiler 
>Keywords: 199805280113.TAA27330

In the above message, you wrote:

> Hi again,
>       I followed your instructions and got the following results:
> 
> 1.  When I ran "make distclean", I got the following warning messages:
> 
> Makefile:4: macros.make: No such file or directory
> Makefile:205: warning: overriding commands for target `/netcdf-.tar.Z'
> Makefile:191: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/netcdf-.tar.Z'
> rules.make:120: warning: overriding commands for target `/'
> rules.make:118: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/'
> rules.make:122: warning: overriding commands for target `/'
> rules.make:120: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/'
> rules.make:125: warning: overriding commands for target `/'
> rules.make:122: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/'
> rules.make:128: warning: overriding commands for target `/'
> rules.make:125: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/'
> rules.make:142: warning: overriding commands for target `/man1'
> rules.make:139: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/man1'
> rules.make:144: warning: overriding commands for target `/man3'
> rules.make:139: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/man3'
> rules.make:147: warning: overriding commands for target `/man3f'
> rules.make:139: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/man3f'
> rules.make:152: warning: overriding commands for target `/'
> rules.make:128: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/'
> make: *** No rule to make target `macros.make'.  Stop.
> 
> Is this normal?

It happens if and when the configure script failed to create the proper
makefiles.  Don't worry about it.  In my email to you I should have said
the following:

    Execute the command "make distclean".  Don't worry if it fails or
    even fails to execute.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>