Re: Troubles with GNUstep Make

[Torli Birnbauer]

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,