I've started learning c from here Exercise 4: Introducing Valgrind following the instructions Im in the valgrind directory and when It explains to use the command make the terminal line says 'make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.' I still haven't solved this yet and wondered if other people have ever experienced this? What can I do?
Thank you very much for reading
Joel
No, never experienced it. Of course, like most sane people, I don't build stuff by hand unnecessarily. I let the lovely package managers (yum, apt, etc) handle that for me. One simple command and I have all I need. I see no need to slow down/stall your C learning by telling you to get familiar with autoconf (just one of the many things I don't care for in Mr. Shaw's method of teaching -- though he does call it "the hard way").
As for your actual problem, it might help if you copy-pasted terminal output so we could see what you actually did. Maybe you simply missed a step. Also, this is not, strictly speaking, a C question, so in the future, such questions might be better suited for the Tech board or Linux sub-forums.
For many Linux source packages you have to run ./configure first (this is what generates the Makefile). Go to the page you liked above and read the steps again carefully, it mentions configure as well.'make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.'
