Need a Makefile expert.

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Oct 1 16:05:11 PDT 2003


DOH!

I think it's looking to use shm_freebsd.c
but I haven't finished writing it yet :-/


On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Oct 01), Julian Elischer said:
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile npasswd (from utexas).
> > I know that it doesn't work on freeBSD, but I have
> > some work to make it do so, if only I could get the damned thing to
> > compile automatically.. (I can do lots of it by hand but it's a pain)
> > 
> > After running Configure, I type "make"
> > and I get:
> > [lots-o-stuff]
> > Making all in src...
> > cd Methods; make   libmethod.a
> > make: don't know how to make .o. Stop
> > *** Error code 2
> > 
> ... (much clipping ahead)
> > ########################################################################
> > # Makefile generated from Makefile.SH on Wed Oct  1 14:39:29 PDT 2003
> ...
> > SHADOW_M =  
> ... 
> > libmethod.a:  $(METHOD_OBJ) $(SHADOW_M).o
> > 	$(RM) $@
> > 	$(AR) $@  $(METHOD_OBJ) $(SHADOW_M).o
> > 	$(RANLIB) $@
> 
> SHADOW_M expands to the empty string, so the dependency list for
> libmethod.a is whatever METHOD_OBJ expands to, plus ".o".  Try removing
> $(SHADOW_M).o from both lines above?
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
> 



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