Re: porting to UNICOS

[Wendy Palm]

i thought about that right after i sent the email.

i'm going to try the gnu make and see if it will
work on a cray.

the extra blank line didn't make a difference.
i thought it would too.

on vacation for a few days, so i'll let you know
what i find.

thanks
wendy


Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> Have you tried (or are you already) using GNU make?
> Maybe the problem lies with make rather than the shell.
> 
> Does it work if you insert an extra empty line?
> I.e., so src/Makefile looks like this:
> 
> ----
> sleep_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lm  \
> 
> ----
> 
> If that doesn't work, just remove the backslash
> or use bash and/or GNU make.
> 
> Wendy Palm <address@hidden> wrote:
> > i'm working on updating the port to unicos and i ran
> > into a "make" problem with 2.0.11 that didn't exist with 2.0.
> >
> > i narrowed it down to this line in the Makefile created after
> > configure is run.  this line appears in this form on both
> > unicos and linux, linux's linker doesn't have a problem with
> > it but unicos' has a fatal error.
> > sleep_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lm  \
> >
> > obviously it's really a shell problem, because there is just a
> > blank line after the backslash, so it should read it as end of
> > line, but shell on the cray keeps reading til characters show
> > up, so it fills sleep_LDADD as
> > "../intl/libintl.a ../lib/libfetish.a    sleep_DEPENDENCIES = 
> > ../intl/libintl.a
> > ../lib/libfetish.a", which causes the linker to
> > search for a file called "sleep_DEPENDENCIES" (which doesn't exist) and
> > fail on the "=".
> >
> > src/Makefile.an contains the line
> > sleep_LDADD = $(LDADD) @FESETROUND_LIBM@ @POW_LIBM@ \
> >   @LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME@ @LIB_NANOSLEEP@
> > sleep_DEPENDENCIES = $(LDADD)
> >
> > now, @LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME@ @LIB_NANOSLEEP@ are null, hence
> > the empty line, right?
> 
> Right.
> 
> > given the chance of "fixing" the shell on the cray any time soon (not 
> > likely)
> > do you have any idea how i can get around this?  (beyond hand patching the
> > makefile after a configure)

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wendy palm
Cray OS Sustaining Engineering, Cray Inc.
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