It was operator error : D When patching config/$(OSTYPE).mk, I had undefined
$(RANLIB) in the makefile below:
include config/$(OSTYPE).mk
$(DIRLIB)libtaucs$(LIBEXT): $(libtaucs_content) $(STDDEPS)
- $(RM) $(DIRLIB)libtaucs$(LIBEXT)
$(AR) $(AOUTFLG)$(DIRLIB)libtaucs$(LIBEXT) $(libtaucs_content)
$(RANLIB) $(DIRLIB)libtaucs$(LIBEXT)
Mark Brethen
mark.bret...@gmail.com
> On Nov 26, 2018, at 12:00 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 25, 2018, at 19:15, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> I used placeholders in the makefile then passed the environment variables
>> using reinplace statements. That worked, however I’m getting a make:
>> lib/darwin16/libtaucs.a: Permission denied. Sounds like I need to change the
>> permissions after extracting the source. Is there a tar flag for that?
>
> No that's not the reason. What the log actually says is:
>
> :info:build lib/darwin16/libtaucs.a
> :info:build make: lib/darwin16/libtaucs.a: Permission denied
> :info:build make: *** [lib/darwin16/libtaucs.a] Error 1
>
> In other words, it's trying to execute lib/darwin16/libtaucs.a as if it were
> a program. It's a library, not a program, and because of that, it doesn't
> have the execute bit, and because of that, you get the message that
> permission is denied. But the real problem to fix is: why is it trying to run
> a library as if it were a program?
>
> I also see from the log that the C compiler is being invoked as "cc" instead
> of the value of of ${configure.cc}.
>
