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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: emx .8f broke make 3.62
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:54:23 GMT
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1iea8fEINNhqt@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu> <4853@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
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- rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
- >>
- >>I installed the new version of emx last night (.8f) and it appears that
- >>GNU make 3.62 has died. I looked in make.exe and discovered it was compiled
- >>with emx .8b, so the new .DLL's are probably incompatible with the old
- >>compiler. Murphy's law got me because I tested all of the commands except
- >>make (doing 1 line compiles entered from the command line) and of course
- >>make had to break.
-
- >I had the same problems when I loaded emx 0.8f but the solution was just to
- >take a little while to build make again. Unzip make and the sources. Go into
- >the source subdirectory and issue a make command. Once it has stopped doing
- >anything, you need to enter a control-c (to break make) and then issue a
- >make again. It will take you about 15-30 minutes to do this and I believe
- >there is an error in the source to one of the c files. It wants to use a
- >function int max(int a, int b) which is not defined anywhere. Simply add it
- >it in (2 lines of code) in the appropriate file and you should be set.
-
- >--Ronald Van Iwaarden
-
- Could you possibly post the new executable?
- Would save many of us --- I guess --- a lot of hassles...
-
- Cheers,
-
- - Clemens
-