[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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