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- From: ericb@lsid.hp.com (Eric Backus)
- Subject: m4 version 1.0.3
- Message-ID: <9301052255.AA20298@labejb.lsid.hp.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:55:29 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 33
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- I recently got m4-1.0.3.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu. I tried building
- it on an HP 350 running HP-UX 8.0. I did "./configure" followed by
- "make". The make failed when trying to create the "libm4.a" in the
- "lib" subdirectory. Output looked like this:
-
-
- < Lots more stuff leading to this deleted >
- cd lib; make CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer' LIBOJBS='' RANLIB='ranlib' AWK='gawk' libm4.a
- gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. obstack.c
- gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. regex.c
- gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. getopt.c
- gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. getopt1.c
- cru libm4.a obstack.o regex.o getopt.o getopt1.o
- Make: Cannot load cru. Stop.
- *** Error code 1
-
- Stop.
- *** Error code 1
-
- Stop.
-
-
- I tried again, using GNU make rather than HP's make, and everything
- worked correctly.
-
- The cause of the problem appears to be that HP's make does not provide
- a default value for the "AR" variable, while GNU make does. Is this
- something that "configure" could fix?
- --
- Eric Backus
- ericb@lsid.hp.com
- (206) 335-2495
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