Fwd: Re: [Bug-gnucap] Compilation bug

[Al Davis]

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Subject: Re: [Bug-gnucap] Compilation bug
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:24:05 -0700
From: Al Davis <address@hidden>
To: Bertrand Rougier <address@hidden>

On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:14, you wrote:
> address@hidden gnucap-0.30]# make
> (cd modelgen; make -k)
> make[1]: Entre dans le répertoire
> `/mnt/win_c/bertrand/gnucap-0.30/modelgen' make[1]: *** Pas de
> cibles spécifiées et aucun makefile n'a été trouvé. Arrêt. make[1]:
> Quitte le répertoire `/mnt/win_c/bertrand/gnucap-0.30/modelgen'
> make: *** [modelgen] Erreur 2

Altavista tells me that the Englosh translation is:
> make[1 ]: Enter the repertory
> `/mnt/win_c/bertrand/gnucap-0.30/modelgen' make[1 ]: *** Not of
> specified targets and no makefile was found. Stop make[1 ]:
> Leaves the repertory `/mnt/win_c/bertrand/gnucap-0.30/modelgen'

My first response almost was "It works for me!" but then I noticed
the "/mnt/win_c/" in the path, telling me that you might be using a
FAT file system, so I tried that and got a similar message.

The problem is that symbolic links are not set up on a FAT file
system.  "tar" is supposed to do this, but since FAT does not support
symbolic links, it doesn't.

Quick solution:

For all files that give you this error (not found) (all in the
"modelgen" directory), copy the same named file from the "src"
directory.

Here is a list of the files:

gnucap-0.30/modelgen/Make2.Debug
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/Make2.g++
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/Make3
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/Makefile
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/io_error.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/io_.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/io_trace.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/l_lib.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/md.h
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_construct.cc
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_convert.cc
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_error.cc
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_get.cc
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_match.cc
gnucap-0.30/modelgen/ap_skip.cc

This is not a problem with any unix-type file system that has
symbolic links.

It is also not a problem with the windows "cygwin" environment, which
mimics symbolic links on a FAT file system.

I am not sure what the ultimate fix will be.  For now, this should
work.

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