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1 total messages Started by Eric Backus Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:55

#1259

Author: Eric Backus
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:55

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I recently got m4-1.0.3.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu.  I tried building
it on an HP 350 running HP-UX 8.0.  I did "./configure" followed by
"make".  The make failed when trying to create the "libm4.a" in the
"lib" subdirectory.  Output looked like this:


< Lots more stuff leading to this deleted >
        cd lib; make  CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer' LIBOJBS=''  RANLIB='ranlib' AWK='gawk' libm4.a
        gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer  -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. obstack.c
        gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer  -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. regex.c
        gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer  -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. getopt.c
        gcc -c -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer  -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_TMPFILE=1 -DHAVE_EFGCVT=2 -I. getopt1.c
         cru libm4.a obstack.o regex.o getopt.o getopt1.o
Make: Cannot load cru.  Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.


I tried again, using GNU make rather than HP's make, and everything
worked correctly.

The cause of the problem appears to be that HP's make does not provide
a default value for the "AR" variable, while GNU make does.  Is this
something that "configure" could fix?
--
				Eric Backus
				ericb@lsid.hp.com
				(206) 335-2495

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