It would have been extreamely helpful for you to have shown what that expanded to on the compile line as well as the errors reported for the non-working case, but I'll take a WAG anyway.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, DS wrote: > Hi all! > I'm trying to build Apache XalanC . > I use cygwin 1.5.7 , gcc 3.3.1 and make 3.8 > > In our makefiles ( we are multi-platform C++ application ) we use nest > structure: > > $(TARGET): $(OBJECTS) > $(MAKE_SHARED) $(LINK_PARAMETERS) $^ -o $@ > > (note , that link parameters are before "-o $@" section) > Or, more likely, note that "link parameters" are not after the objects ($^) you are linking. If "link parameters" include libraries, this is incorrect. Library references are only used to resolve undefined symbols. Before there are objects, there are no undefined symbols. > if I change it to: > > $(TARGET): $(OBJECTS) > $(MAKE_SHARED) $^ -o $@ $(LINK_PARAMETERS) > > it's working . > > Any ideas how can build with the first model ? XalanC is multi-paltform > application and I can't chnage the makefiles so easyly. > If my suspicions are correct, it shouldn't work correctly on any platform that way. That's just wrong. BTW, this is not Cygwin specific, so it is officially off topic for this list. HTH. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
