Re: Cannot find a rule to create target all-local from dependencies

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Paul Kent Anderson <pka et byu edu> writes:

> Trying to install xfce on AIX, which requires atk, glib, pango, gtk,
> etc. make (for all of them) complains about all-local missing
> 
> I found a reference to this in the archives, and the solution then was
> to use make -k to continue building on Solaris 2.8. This would resolve
> out of order dependencies. Unfortunately, it's not working for
> me. Anybody know what's going on? I checked the Makefile, and sure
> enough, there isn't an "all-local". Did ./configure miss something?

Using GNU make is recommended; while the GTK+ (etc.) makefiles will
work with some non-GNU makes, there will be problems with others.

See:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Regards,
                                        Owen