DDE27 !Make and clean target

I just purchased and install DDE27 on my Pi3 and copied a project over from my RiscPC (where an Acorn C/C++ from a decade ago).

I had to manually clean the dynamic dependencies in the Acorn Makefile to build it, but it builds OK. On the other hand the clean target doesn’t cleanup the o folder.
The target is defined as follow in the Makefile:

@.clean:
x wipe o.* ~cf~v

After changing it to “wipe o ~cf” it complains with File ‘:Fatty.$.o’ not found.
In other words it seems to look in the root of the drive instead of into the project’s folder.

As far as I am aware, !Make is deprecated and !AMU is the way to go.
!AMU (I think) is based on a standard unix make utility so the filenames should be in unix format.
Does wipe *.o work?

Edit: Changed my mind, that probably won’t work.
Edit2: Wish this thing would let me delete posts!

Plenty of examples of using AMU in the RO source – lots of obey files along the lines of:

Dir <Obey$Dir>
amu_machine clean
stripdepnd Makefile
amu_machine standalone

Leave out the bits you don’t want…

What the last line does of course is dictated by the makefile, again lots of examples of makefiles in the RO source tar files.
Being somewhat of a novice I find studying how the official source is dealt with to be my best study tool.

As far as I am aware, !Make is deprecated and !AMU is the way to go.

Yup. To quote page 59 of the Desktop Tools manual:

Although this tool is still provided, its use is no longer recommended. Instead, consider using AMU with the Shared Makefiles.

Plenty of examples of using AMU in the RO source

The examples can be very useful, but I should point out that CModule contains an error – this comment is not directed at Steve :)

The examples can be very useful, but I should point out that CModule contains an error – this comment is not directed at Steve :)

Er:

Being somewhat of a novice I find studying how the official source is dealt with to be my best study tool.

:)
All assuming no bugs in the build system of course.

I was trying to avoid a “yeah, I know”-type reply since you’d already posted in the linked thread and obviously knew about the problem.

I use !Make as a front-end to amu (it runs amu to build a target) just to be easily able to select the target instead of using Obey scripts to for each target. For the make file himself I write it by hand, just paying attention to a few formatting issues that causes !Make to reject the makefile as an invalid project.

Now for my cleaning issue I worked around by using instead:
x wipe <Prefix$Dir>.o.* ~cf~v