I have just downloaded a c++ package called TSNEAT, which is compiled with this makefile. However, when I run it using make in ubuntu, I simply get the message "make: Nothing to be done for `Makefile.common'."
It's the timeseries implementation of Neuroaugmentation of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), you can find it here: http://tsneat.sourceforge.net/
I don't really know much about makefiles so I'd be very appreciative if you could take a look and tell me whether I am doing something wrong, or whether there is an actual problem with the makefile (in which case I would just go back to the drawing board and make one myeself...).
Makefile.common is intended to be used by others makefiles.
There are one in ./evaluator and another in ./neatl
Also you should create a directory ./neatl/OBJ/
That will make executables ./evaluator/BIN/evaluator and ./neatl/BIN/neatl
I think that the files under ./common ./evaluator/common ./neatl/common are all equal