Re: compile trouble

[Jason Stover]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:36:10AM +0800, John Darrington wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:30:32PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > I just updated gnulib and tried to build pspp. Saw this:
>      >
>      > if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.  -I. -I./src -I./lib -I./intl
>      > -I./gl -I./gl -I./src/language -I./src/language/lexer
>      > -I./src/ui/terminal -I./src/data -I./src/libpspp -Wall -W
>      > -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-sign-compare
>      > -Wmissing-prototypes -Dunix -g -O2 -MT src/message.o -MD -MP -MF
>      > ".deps/src/message.Tpo" -c -o src/message.o src/message.c; \
>      > then mv -f ".deps/src/message.Tpo" ".deps/src/message.Po"; else rm -f 
> ".deps/src/message.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
>      > cc1: No such file or directory: opening dependency file 
> .deps/src/message.Tpo
>      > make[2]: *** [src/message.o] Error 1
>      >
>      > Does this have anything to do with gnulib?
>      
>      I doubt it.  Usually that kind of message means that, for
>      whatever reason, the directory .deps/src didn't get created
>      properly.  At that point I usually throw up my hands and re-run
>      `make -f Smake; ./configure; make'.  Actually I use a
>      subdirectory for builds so it's more like `rm -rf _build; make -f
>      Smake _build; make -C _build'.
> 
> I concurr.  Or if you're building from the source directory, then make
> dist-clean; make -f Smake clean is a good way to get a clean source
> directory. 
> 
> Also, the compiler command you pasted suggests that you haven't done
> cvs update for a couple of days; although that shouldn't have been a
> problem in itself.

In my defense, it was a fresh checkout. But it is probably my own
fault because I can build it on two other systems.

-Jason