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- From: kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
- Subject: Re: Problems compiling GNU make
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:22:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep6.164840.24588@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- >I have been repeatedly unable to compile GNU make. I have had this
- >problem for several versions of Linux and a couple versions of GCC.
- >This time I think I got the definitions right and it compiles, but
- >if I use the resulting make it does something terrible. This is
- >only a request for help from someone that has had similar problems.
- >I am using Linux 0.97-patch2 (haven't moved up to patch3, give me
- >time) and gcc 2.2.2d.
- >
- >Say I've got two files to compile and the desired action is as
- >follows (I don't remember the original statements, just the desired
- >action from make):
- >
- >gcc -O6 -C filea.c -o filea.o
- >gcc -O6 -C fileb.c -o fileb.o
- >
- >(I hope I got the "-C" correct, this is from memory.)
- >
- >When I run make, the first line works as expected. On the second line,
- >though, the "fileb.o" gets lost and gcc just sits there without giving
- >me any complaints. Hitting ^C to interrupt the job and then running
- >make again allows me to compile the second line correctly, but it
- >does the same thing on the next file!
- >
- >I don't remember the exact structure of the Makefile that this is
- >happening with, but I get the same behavior with other Makefiles. I'm
- >only explaining the problem so that someone else might recognize it
- >and mail me a fix.
-
- Well, I doubt I have a fix for you right now, but I'll post what I have
- found for the benefit of others. I was poking through the source to GNU
- make tonight for another reason and as I read through the Makefile I saw
- something that brought back your problem from the depths of my subconscious.
- There is apparently a compile-time DEFINE in GNU make called "NO_MINUS_C_MINUS
- _O". I don't know what happens if you define it against the grain of the way
- your C compiler works (since I've never personally compiled GNU make) but the
- example line they show as for whether or not to -D that constant is:
- gcc -c foo.c -o foo.o, which looks hauntingly similar to the one which you
- listed above (except for the case of the C, which you probably just missed
- while pulling it from your brain).
-
- I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the existence of that
- constant. If you weren't aware of it, I'd see if you've been defining the
- constant during your recent compiles of make, and do the opposite thing. :)
-
- I hope this was of some help to you.
-
- --
- Phillip Andrew Rzewski Internet: kutcha@acm.rpi.edu
- "My analyst warned me about her,
- but she was so beautiful that I got another analyst"
-