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- From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
- Subject: Re: emx .8f broke make 3.62
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.170211.12979@ornl.gov>
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:02:11 GMT
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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.
- >
- >Put simply, I need a make that is compatible with the new emx. I cannot
- >build make from the sources myself because I need make to make make (arghhh!)
- >
- The subject of "make"s seems to be a real bear. Installed 0.8f last night
- (7Jan) and gnumake seemed to run although with some wierd activities. It
- would stop occasionally but entering CR from the keyboard a couple of times
- would cause it to go to completion. However, the two test cases I tried would
- not link successfully. There was a long list of __xxx__ the linker was looking
- in libc.a to find that didn't seem to be there. Missing macros? The compiles
- and archives done by the make file in lib\math seemed to work. There are a
- number of gnumk362 files on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. I checked them all and they all
- have the same executable.
-
- You can use nmake2 which is also on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu but IBM apparently has
- their own ideas about the command language and translating the UNIX style
- makefiles to work with nmake2 is arduous. Works well for simple compiles and
- links and understands HPFS.
-
- Are we having fun yet?
-
-