From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs\compiling Java Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:54:12 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <4521B78C-2F6D-4599-B991-10C34FEE0A1F@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154541683 23264 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 18:01:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 20:01:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L1h-0007Ox-9V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L1g-0005WO-Nu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:01:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L17-0005PB-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L16-0005Od-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L16-0005OW-Ay for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G8L4F-0003Hf-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G8L0k-0007Ak-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36422 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Frank Murray >> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:21:02 -0400 >> >> What I cannot understand (basically) is that when I enter the compile >> command, >> , it prints out a line that reads "compile command >> make -k..." >> >> I assume its looking for some sort of "make -k" file. > > No, it is asking for the command to compile your Java code. "make -k" > is the default command, it assumes that you are compiling through the > Make utility, and that you wrote a Makefile that Make reads to know > how to compile. Or that you didn't need to write a Makefile because make's default rules know how to build the target e.g. Foo.class (which you must specify on the command line, if there's no Makefile). -- Kevin