Recipe Commences Before First Target Error In Makefile

Recipe commences before first target stop this means the first thing in the makefile seems to be part of a recipe it begins with a recipe prefix character and doesn 39 t appear to be a legal make directive such as a variable assignment recipes must always be associated with a target the recipe prefix character is tab by default

13 i just download the android open source project and tried to build it with make the i receive the message build core prebuilt mk 91 recipe commences before first target stop here is the corresponding make file snippet the first line here being line number 89 ifneq local is host module transform host ranlib copy hack else

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The when i run the make file i get bash 4 1 make makefile 413 recipe commences before first target stop stop from what i can make out of my searches there is something wrong in the make file but based on the read out matching the last lines in the configure action i 39 m guessing the conflict is being taken from the configure file

Commands commence before first target stop 39 missing rule before commands stop 39 this means the first thing in the makefile seems to be part of a command script it begins with a tab character and doesn 39 t appear to be a legal make command such as a variable assignment command scripts must always be associated with a target

Line 10 is the last line someone on irc advised me to make sure all paths exist so i touched mkdirred them all but that did not help last edited by dieter be 2009 04 12 12 05 16

This will build a stand alone odin which does not depend on system llvm at all there 39 s some work needed on the makefile and llvm detection in general plus odin needs to move to llvm12 at some point so this shouldn 39 t be a problem in the future though supporting stand along llvm builds is probably a good idea too 1

My makefile is very simple all f myfile echo myfile exists of course the recipe line begins with tab if the file myfile really exists everything is ok

A few things first make expects targets recipe 39 s in the form of target deps tab recipe 1 tab recipe 2 and it will run the recipes if and only if the target needs to be rebuilt you don 39 t specify a target but you do specify lines that start with tabs recipes make is complaining that you have recipes without a target as it

Build appd exe app exe endif tmp tmpx98txnq1 11 recipe commences before first target stop if i get it right the formatting gone awry causes some problems to make once it has to build anything but the first target profile make f makefile arm clean info make profiler make f tmp tmpkloliqkq clean tmp tmpkloliqkq 17 recipe

Commands commence before first target stop 39 missing rule before commands stop 39 this means the first thing in the makefile seems to be part of a command script it begins with a tab character and doesn 39 t appear to be a legal make command such as a variable assignment command scripts must always be associated with a target

Makefile 110 recipe for target 39 srtp srtp o 39 failed while setting up libsrtp hot network questions fourth order bvp partial differential equation

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I want to add another option to the cflags make variable depending on the result of a shell command that i want to execute outside of a recipe in my configuration section of the makefile this is what i have come up with

If the makefile is including something that you created you probably have some errant commas spaces line endings r instead of r etc reply porkchop d clown

5 1 recipe syntax makefiles have the unusual property that there are really two distinct syntaxes in one file most of the makefile uses make syntax see writing makefiles however recipes are meant to be interpreted by the shell and so they are written using shell syntax the make program does not try to understand shell syntax it

During build i get this error android mk 145 recipe commences before first target stop my compiler should be a gcc from an android toolchain this is the

This results in makefile 4 commands commence before first target stop however if i add a rule it works x foo bar baz ifdef x t echo x endif is it really necessary to add rules for outputting variables for debugging etc bonus why does the removal of ifdef result in makefile 3 missing

You need to tab indent the info line so that it does not terminate the recipe like this test ifeq 1 1 info endif echo kkk obviously you need to use tabs here edit the make documentation of conditional blocks consistently uses tab indentation within recipes and spaces or no indentation outside of recipes

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