make No rule to make target all Stop

Question

I keep getting this error   make      No rule to make target  all    Stop    Even though my make file looks like this    CC gcc CFLAGS -c -Wall  all  build  build  inputText o outputText o main o     gcc main o inputText o outputText o -o main  main o  main c       CC    CFLAGS  main c -o main o  inputText o  inputText c       CC    CFLAGS  inputText c -o inputText o  outputText o  outputText c       CC    CFLAGS  outputText c -o outputText o   Yes there should be a tab space underneath the target and there is in my make file    I can get it to work if I try one of the targets like main o  inputText o and outputText o but can t with either build or all    EDIT   I just randomly tried running make and telling it the file using the following command    make -f make   This works but why doesn t just typing make work

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Your makefile should ideally be named makefile  not make  Note that you can call your makefile anything you like  but as you found  you then need the -f option with make to specify the name of the makefile  Using the default name of makefile just makes life easier

[makefile] make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop

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