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g++ warning: ignoring old commands for target 'xxx.o' [message #1809857]

Wed, 24 July 2019 23:44

Tim Anderson

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Registered: June 2018

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I'm in the process of porting a software package from Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10 to Eclipse Helios on RHEL 6.9.
On the Windows side there is a single solution with multiple projects under the one solution. When I moved the code to Linux I just copied the source as is so it all ended up as series of directories in a single directory.
I imported the main directory into a project and have been slowly removing the Visual Studio specific data types and in some cases just told eclipse to exclude the resource from the overall build because I didn't want to lose the software that I brought over (just in case I will need it later).
That worked for all but one case where I'm now getting a warning stating that it is 'ignoring old commands for target 'xxx.o'. The line that is being ignored is "echo 'Building file: %<'" in subdirs.mk in the directory that I told eclipse to exclude.
I guess since it's not a part of the original software I could just remove the subdirs.mk file but I'm curious why it's trying to use this makefile when I've told eclipse to exclude it.

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