Troubles with GNUstep Make

[Igor Pirnovar]

I have recently installed GNUstep binaries with Synaptic Package Manager on my Ubuntu system, and subsequently started to study the Base Programming Manual, where I came across the following:

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Now create the makefile, again using your favourite text editor, and save it in the same project directory with the filename GNUmakefile.

include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
TOOL_NAME = LogTest
LogTest_OBJC_FILES = source.m
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make

If you look at the makefile above you will notice the two lines that tell the make utility to build a tool with the filename LogTest from the Objective-C source file source.m. You could copy and modify this makefile for later projects you may have: just change the tool name and list the new source files.

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The trouble is that changing the line {{ TOOL_NAME = LogTest }} to something else, make does not work. I get the following: 

>     $ make
>     This is gnustep-make 2.0.2. Type 'make print-gnustep-make-help' for help.
>     Making all for tool WriteStr2File...
>     Linking tool WriteStr2File ...
>     /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.4/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
>     (.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>     make[1]: *** [obj/WriteStr2File] Error 1
>     make: *** [WriteStr2File.all.tool.variables] Error 2
>     igor@kosi:~/work/prgming/obj-c/projs/bp02/wr2file 
>     $ 

It looks as if certain names like {{ LogTest, simple, ...}} were pre-compiled into GNUstep make. Is this a known undocumented problem, or will building GNUstep Make from source solve this problem?

Thank you in advance,
Torli