Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 17:21:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ho Seng Yip <hsengyip@singnet.com.sg> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Corrupted Make Program Message-ID: <19990809172156.D31076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <005601bee232$5f82c380$6ba615a5@oasis>; from Ho Seng Yip on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:42:35PM %2B0800 References: <00aa01bee20f$982c9d00$6bd474cb@oasis> <19990809121103.I22360@freebie.lemis.com> <005601bee232$5f82c380$6ba615a5@oasis>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 9 August 1999 at 14:42:35 +0800, Ho Seng Yip wrote: > On Monday, August 09, 1999 10:41 AM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> Subject: Re: Corrupted Make Program >> >> >>> On Monday, 9 August 1999 at 9:44:20 +0800, Ho Seng Yip wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I suspect I have got a corrupted 'make' program because I was not >>>> able to able compile the same program that I was able to compile >>>> a few weeks ago. >>>> >>>> Is there anything I can do? >> >> Sure. Describe the problem or fix it yourself. > > Hi, > > Apologies. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer. I am trying to compile > vmailmgr-0.95 on my FreeBSD 3.1 machine and got the following error, > > Making all in config > /bin/rm -f libcgi.a > sh mergelib.sh libcgi.a > /usr/libexec/elf/ranlib: ../libcgi.a: No such file or directory > *** Error code 9 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > > I have e-mailed to the author and here's his reply: > > "That should have read: > sh mergelib.sh libcgi.a cgi/libcgi.a > Unless you're doing something funny with your make, It looks like a > buggy make program." > > To check if my 'make' was alright, I went back to the source code for an > earlier release of the software and tried to compile it with no success, but > I was able to compile that a few weeks ago with no issues. I am using egcs > currently to compile all my C and C++ programs. > > Any suggestions? Have you tried gmake? It's possible that it's a compatibility issue. I can't imagine that make itself is buggy. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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