I am attempting to set-up a Makefile to use for a new system on a Sun Unix machine.

I am new to creating Makefiles. I am trying to start simply by compiling a program. I am getting the following error message but an uncertain what 'Error Code 1' is. Is there a web site with Error Codes somewhere?

Here is the full output from my Makefile execution:
(star9)(abi)-->/apps/abi/src> abimake abi1000
make -f /apps/abi/tools/abirule.mk "HDRDIR = /apps/abi/include" "DEBUGGER = -g" "USERID = /" \
"OBJECTS= \
# "/apps/abi/bin/abilib.o \
abi1000 > ./abimake.log 2>&1; \
rm abi1000.o ;
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `abi1000'

NOTE: to try to simplify the process I wanted to comment out building the library as I keep getting the message: 'make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `/apps/abi/bin/abilib.o''. So I thought, tackle one issues at a time.

Anyway, this is my Makefile as it is now:
.SUFFIXES:

ABI_HOME = /apps/abi
MAKEPC = $(ABI_HOME)/src/abirule.mk
OBJDIR = $(ABI_HOME)/src
HDRDIR = $(ABI_HOME)/src
PRGOBJ = .
PRGHDR = .
LOG = ./abimake.log

USERID =/ # Default userid for pcc command unless passed from command line
DEBUGGER= -g # Default debugger for cc command unless passed from command line

STDPARMS = "HDRDIR = $(HDRDIR)" "DEBUGGER = $(DEBUGGER)" "USERID = $(USERID)"

SENDTOLOG = > $(LOG) 2>&1

abi1000 : \
<spaces> $(PRGHDR)/abi1000.h \
<spaces> abi1000.pc
<tab> $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) -f $(MAKEPC) $(STDPARMS) \
<tab> "OBJECTS= \
<tab> $@ $(SENDTOLOG); \
<tab> rm abi1000.o ;


Any ideas on what the error message is resulting from?

The make utility


It may be that it doesn't see the file due to path reasons (see the link posted above- search for your error).

The man page shows that the error from shell commands comes back as your posted error - Could not find a list of error codes for these errors (but I'm sure it's out there...just can't find it)
man page for make -s 1s