> self-impressed and coy That's an odd thing to read into my comment. I am merely passing on information that was at one point given to me when I myself had a

> self-impressed and coy That's an odd thing to read into my comment. I am merely passing on information that was at one point given to me when I myself had a Makefile that was actually not needed because the program it was for was a single source file project like OP. Also in what way is it easier to read a long document without reference to a specific section than it is to just delete the makefile and run make and the stem of the name of the source file? Edit: My second paragraph of this comment was written prior to parent commenter editing their comment.