On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>
> >> Attached is a minimum patch to build imcc as the parrot executable
>
> > languages/imcc/*.o
>
> > languages/imcc/*.o doesn't match anything
>
> Brain dead make?
No. Here's the same result with GNU make:
gmake: *** No rule to make target `languages/imcc/*.o', needed by
`languages/imcc/imcc'. Stop.
The problem is that with a clean build tree, there are no *.o files
down in languages/imcc/ at the point when that target is reached.
Hence make doesn't have anything to expand *.o as, and quite reasonably
complains. If, however, there is even a single .o file in that
directory, then the wildcard is expanded as you'd expect and the make
proceeds.
> Anyway, this line could for sure be deleted.
That's probably sufficient for now. Alternatively, you could simply
always force the descent into languages/imcc. I can imagine scenarios
where the *.o files were updated but the *.c files weren't (e.g.
re-compiling imcc/*.c with different options) and the root Makefile
would miss that dependency, but such scenarios are certainly outside
the normal run of things.
> > Apart from that, it built fine and passed all tests with Sun's cc and
> > perl5.00503 on Solaris 8.
>
> Fine. Thanks for your feedback.
You're welcome. And thanks for moving us past the perl assembler!
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
