[darcs-users] build problem

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sat Sep 11 13:03:28 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> If I get a darcs repo and run make (as instructed in
> building_darcs.tex), I error out with the amusing message
> 
>     make: Wall: Command not found
> 
> This came from trying to run the .depend target just after autoconf.mk
> is built, but before it is actually included (because autoconf.mk and
> .depend are both included by the main makefile, in that order).  But
> autoconf.mk defines GHC, so when the .depend target tries to run
> 
>     @$(GHC) $(GHCFLAGS) ...
> 
> it ends up with
> 
>      -Wall
> 
> make takes the leading "-" to mean "ignore errors" and tries to run
> Wall!  (Fortunately, that's a small 'w', otherwise it might have
> informed everyone on the system of my folly. ;-) )

:)

I've updated buildint_darcs.tex to instruct users to run autoconf and
./configure by hand.  This will avoid the error for people who read
instructions, and those who don't will just have to run make twice.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org




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