make sometimes fails

[Robin Atwood]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 04.08.09 20:02:41, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I am playing around with KDevelop 3.9.94 and sometimes a build works OK
> > and sometimes I get:
> >
> > ...build> make myclass.o
> > make: *** "no rule to make target myclass.o". Stop.
>
> Looks like you've selected myclass.cpp in the project tree and then hit
> build but there's no target in the Makefiles to build myclass.o. Either
> make sure you only select really buildable things in the project tree
> (unfortunately kdevelop has currently no way of knowing if a foo.o target
> exists for a foo.cpp) or use the buildset on the bottom to always build a
> fixed set of items from the project tree.

Ah, I wondered what a buildset was! Using that seems to fix the problem.
Thanks.

-Robin
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