Can I make this Makefile work?

From: William Payne (mikas493_no_spam_at_student.liu.se)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:04:45 +0200

Consider this Makefile:

CXX = g++
LD = g++
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -ggdb -c -o
LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/gcc-3.4.1/lib/ -o $(EXEC)
EXEC = NULL

Q4_EXEC = 4q
Q4_OBJECTS = q4.o

q4:
 EXEC = $(Q4_EXEC)
 $(Q4_OBJECTS)
  $(LD) $(Q4_OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS)

%.o: %.cpp
 $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $@ $<

clean:
 rm -f $(Q4_OBJECTS) *~ *.stackdump

When I do "$ make" or "$ make q4" I always get the message "make: 'q4' is up
to date."

I know I could do:

CXX = g++
LD = g++
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -ggdb -c -o
LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/gcc-3.4.1/lib/ #-o $(EXEC)
EXEC = NULL

Q4_EXEC = 4q
Q4_OBJECTS = q4.o

q4:
 #EXEC = $(Q4_EXEC)
 $(Q4_OBJECTS)
  $(LD) $(Q4_OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(Q4_EXEC)

%.o: %.cpp
 $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $@ $<

clean:
 rm -f $(Q4_OBJECTS) *~ *.stackdump

But can I make it work my way? When I am done I will have q1-to-q11 in the
makefile and I want to a short makefile, but still perfectly readable.
What's the best way to proceed?

/ WP

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