Re: "make install" doesn't work without calling "make" first

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

2013/9/11 Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> I was recently playing with Nmap's build infrastructure and I noticed
> something I find not quite right - when you do ./configure and try to
> run make install right away, you'll see that there's no rule to build
> liblua/liblua.a and make install fails. While it's a pretty minor bug
> (if any at all), I thought I'd let you know here to make sure there's
> no possible related bug it could cause. I kind of got used to projects
> running "make all" for me if I try to do make install without calling
> "make" first.
>
> [d33tah-pc][~/workspace/ncat/luaexec-lookup] $ sudo make install
> Makefile:418: makefile.dep: No such file or directory
> g++ -MM -I./liblinear -I./liblua -I./libdnet-stripped/include
> -I./nbase -I./nsock/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNMAP_NAME=\"Nmap\"
> -DNMAP_URL=\"http://nmap.org\";
> -DNMAP_PLATFORM=\"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu\"
> -DNMAPDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/nmap\" -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> charpool.cc FingerPrintResults.cc FPEngine.cc FPModel.cc idle_scan.cc
> MACLookup.cc main.cc nmap.cc nmap_dns.cc nmap_error.cc NmapOps.cc
> NmapOutputTable.cc nmap_tty.cc osscan2.cc osscan.cc output.cc
> payload.cc portlist.cc portreasons.cc protocols.cc scan_engine.cc
> service_scan.cc services.cc Target.cc TargetGroup.cc targets.cc
> tcpip.cc timing.cc traceroute.cc utils.cc xml.cc nse_main.cc
> nse_utility.cc nse_nsock.cc nse_dnet.cc nse_fs.cc nse_nmaplib.cc
> nse_debug.cc nse_pcrelib.cc nse_binlib.cc nse_bit.cc nse_openssl.cc
> nse_ssl_cert.cc > makefile.dep
> make: *** No rule to make target `liblua/liblua.a', needed by `nmap'.  Stop.
>
> Yours,
> Jacek Wielemborek

Also, this kind of lines caught my attention:

lua_clean:
    -cd $(LIBLUADIR) && $(MAKE) clean

Wouldn't "make -C $(LIBLUADIR) clean" be a better choice here?
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