[ILUG] Makefile

[Niall Sheridan]

You want something like:

default:
<tab>$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) $(EXTRA_FLAGS) modules

where <tab> is a literal tab character. spaces won't cut it.

 Niall

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:43, keith hyland <keith at iol.ie> wrote:
> looking for some help here with a makefile.    when i run make i get:
>
> "make: Nothing to be done for `default'."
>
> in the folder there is the makefile (below) and the C source code. I'm
> using a fairly recent Linux Mint 11 (katya) install on an Acer 8371G
> and the purpose of the code is to switch off the ATI graphics adapter
> and let the thing run with the low-power integrated Intel.
>
> I copied and pasted the hack from
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1242590.html and it "made"
> & ran quite well under Mint 9
>
> i have the standard development files installed; make, binutils,
> build-essential, gcc, linux-headers, etc. - am i missing something?
>
>
> makefile:
>
> ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
> obj-m := lenovo_acpi.o
> else
> KERNELDIR ?= /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
> PWD := $(shell pwd)
>
> default:
> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) $(EXTRA_FLAGS) modules
>
> clean:
> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) $(EXTRA_FLAGS) clean
>
> endif
>
> /makefile
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