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Re: Troubles with GNUstep Make


From: Torli Birnbauer
Subject: Re: Troubles with GNUstep Make
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:32:43 -0400

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 19:59 +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 17 Mar 2009, at 19:45, Torli Birnbauer wrote:

> I have recently installed GNUstep binaries with Synaptic Package  
> Manager on my Ubuntu system, and subsequently started to study the  
> Base Programming Manual, where I came across the following:
>
>
> Now create the makefile, again using your favourite text editor, and  
> save it in the same project directory with the filename GNUmakefile.
>
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
> TOOL_NAME = LogTest
> LogTest_OBJC_FILES = source.m
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make
>
> If you look at the makefile above you will notice the two lines that  
> tell the make utility to build a tool with the filename LogTest from  
> the Objective-C source file source.m. You could copy and modify this  
> makefile for later projects you may have: just change the tool name  
> and list the new source files.
>
> The trouble is that changing the line {{ TOOL_NAME = LogTest }} to  
> something else, make does not work.
> It looks as if certain names like {{ LogTest, simple, ...}} were pre- 
> compiled into GNUstep make. Is this a known undocumented problem, or  
> will building GNUstep Make from source solve this problem?

Neither ...  there's no evidence of any problem with gnustep-make  
there.  What it looks like is that there is a problem with your source  
code.  The makefile is trying to link the tool WriteStr2File and has  
found that the source code (whatever that is in your case) does not  
contain the required  'main()' function.

You can do 'make messages=yes' to get more information about exactly  
what it's doing.

Richard, this is a very interesting hypothesis you've brought up. I Know to you it must look credible, but it is a total hogwash to me! If I change the setting of {{ TOOL_NAME }} variable from  {{ TOOL_NAME = WriteStr2File }} back to {{ TOOL_NAME = LogTest }} or to {{ TOOL_NAME = simple }}, as can be found in the "Make Utility" documentation on page http://www.gnustep.org/developers/documentation.html under the subtitle "1.2 Structure of a Makefile" the compilation and linking finishes flawlessly.

Torli,


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