make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `clean'

[vaibhavs17]

Hi team,

I am trying to clean C++ code on solaris 10 but getting below error:
Could you please me on this?

rm -f -r ../bin/SunWS_cache
rm -f CalcServiceStaticData_c.hh CalcServiceStaticData_s.hh CalcServiceStaticData_c.cc CalcServiceStaticData_s.cc ../bin/SDMServer
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `clean'
Current working directory /apps/calc/sds/src
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
cd src ; make clean
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `clean'

I am not able to identify what does it means?
Please HELP!!!

Thanks Vaibhav

[Salem]

> rm -f CalcServiceStaticData_c.hh CalcServiceStaticData_s.hh CalcServiceStaticData_c.cc CalcServiceStaticData_s.cc ../bin/SDMServer
If you type this in at the console, without the -f option, what error message do you get?

[vaibhavs17]

Hi Salem,

thanks for your response!

I tried .. first i move to src directory
then follow your command
Please check below:

calcos@nygespappd29:/apps/calc/sds/src> rm CalcServiceStaticData_c.hh CalcServiceStaticData_s.hh CalcServiceStaticData_c.cc CalcServiceStaticData_s.cc ../bin/SDMServer
rm: CalcServiceStaticData_c.hh: override protection 640 (yes/no)?

[Salem]

Well -f would have answered yes to that, so say 'y'

It seems strange that it would even ask you for such a file, since mode 640 is just rw-r-----, which is writeable by you.
I can remove such files without being prompted.

Have you created an alias for rm, like
alias rm = rm -i

I figure one of them (possibly the last one) will come back with permission denied or some other error.

[vaibhavs17]

hi Salem,

no such error is coming .. about permission denied...

and there is not alais...
for rm --> rm -i

[grumpy]

My first guess, like Salem, would be that rm is aliased to something. My second guess is a path problem: so the rm being executed is not the program you expect.

Check the path settings in the parent shell, and any settings of path done within the makefile. Similarly, check other environment variables.

Since you apparently have a makefile invoking make in sub-directories, check each makefile involved.