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Asked: 2026-06-18T06:46:43+00:00

I am making a Netbeans C++ project with an existing GNUmakefile. I went to

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I am making a Netbeans C++ project with an existing GNUmakefile. I went to File -> New Project -> C/C++ with Existing Sources and selected the folder with my current files (including the GNUmakefile).

However, when I run my app, I get the following error.

make: Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'. Stop.

BUILD FAILED (exit value 2, total time: 67 ms)

I suspect that my Makefile is named “GNUmakefile”, which differs from “Makefile.” However, I do not want to rename “GNUmakefile,” since I am working on this project with others who want to keep it the same.

Is that why Netbeans complains about my GNUmakefile? How can I tell Netbeans to use GNUmakefile instead?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It looks like you must be invoking make as make -f Makefile, so you are explicitly (whether you realize it or not) saying to use a makefile called Makefile. Otherwise, GNU make would happily use GNUmakefile:

    $ ls
GNUmakefile
$ cat GNUmakefile
all: ; @echo done
$ make
done
$ make -f Makefile
make: Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.

    Note that you only get the error you reported in the last case. So you just need to change how you are invoking GNU make. Alternatively you could symlink Makefile to GNUmakefile:

    $ ln -s GNUmakefile Makefile
$ gmake -f Makefile
done
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