why do keep getting warnings in this makefile?

Question

CC := cc
NAME := minishell
SRCS = ./Srcs/xsh.c
DIR = .build  
OBJS := $(SRCS:%.c=$(DIR)%.o)
OBJS := $(addprefix $(DIR), $(OBJS))
$(DIR)/%.o : %.c 
    $(CC) -c -o $@ $<
$(NAME) : $(OBJS) | $(DIR)
    $(CC) -o $@ $^
$(DIR):
    mkdir -p $(@)
all : $(NAME)

I am trying to store all.o files in the build directory

Makefile:12: warning: overriding commands for target.build

Makefile:8: warning: ignoring old commands for target.build

make: *** No rule to make target %.c, needed by.build. Stop

Answer 1

Your line numbers are off by one which makes these errors hard to understand. Please be sure to include the exact makefile and errors so that they match up.

However, I assume that line #8 is:

$(DIR)/%.o : %.c 

and line #12 is:

$(DIR):

The only way that this could give that error is if your DIR variable ended in spaces:

DIR = .build  
            ^-space here

Makefiles preserve ending spaces on variables so be sure you don't do that.

Note if you had a newer version of GNU make it would warn about this:

Makefile:8: *** mixed implicit and normal rules: deprecated syntax

I guess that's still not super-helpful but it's something: :)