[fedora-java] Unable to GNU AutoBuild a simple HelloWorld console application

[Jeff Johnston]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I am testing Eclipse on F8, and I have checkout HelloWorld
> from my SVN repository and into my workspace, choosing
> GNU AutoBuild but apparently it is unable to auto-build.
>
> The error I have reported is:
>
> **** Clean-only build of configuration Build (GNU) for project 
> HelloWorld ****
>
> make -k distclean
> make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.
> Buildfile generation error occurred..
> Not possible to generate Makefile and no existing Makefile found
> Build stopped..
>
> So what is the problem
>   

A GNU Autotools project expects an existing project to have a configure 
script or autogen.sh that is used to configure and ultimately generate 
the Makefile.  If you do not have these files and don't plan on adding 
them,  you should use either the regular Managed Make project which will 
create a Makefile for you, or the Std Make project which expects you to 
have a Makefile.

Regarding the clean behavior, the Autotools project default is to do a 
make distclean which is a standard target in a generated Makefile for an 
autotools project.  If one goes to Project ->Properties->C/C++ 
Build->Settings->Autotools tab you will find settings for the clean 
behavior.  You can change this to make clean or have the build directory 
simply deleted.  The distclean target deletes all files created by the 
build and leaves others alone.  This is useful when one wants to 
configure/build directly in the source directory.

The error message was given because it could not find a Makefile in your 
project and there were no configuration files to generate one from.

-- Jeff J.
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