Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/06/09/10:15:19
No, i said to use the 'veryclean' target in case you had old .o files still
around.
Zargon wrote:
>
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 07:53:58 GMT, Robin Johnson <robbat2 AT home DOT com> ate
> too many hallucinogenic mushrooms and wrote:
>
> >> I am astonished that a severe showstopper at compile time on Allegro's
> >> *original platform* would make it into a released zip file. Of course,
> >> in unpacking the thing I probably overwrote the previous, known-good
> >> Allegro 3.12...
> >
> >There is the problem...
> >do 'make veryclean' before you try 'make' again!
>
> That's incorrect. The documentation says that the "clean" and
> "veryclean" targets are used *after* installation, to free up disk
> space by removing .o files and the like. It also says that after a
> "make veryclean" if you want to build the library again at a later
> date you have to make the dependencies again, and for that you have to
> have sed; I don't have sed so this is simply not an option.
>
> The existence of files from previous versions cannot possinly have any
> effect anyways. Any source file referenced in the makefile, or
> included into another source file, will have been included in the zip,
> and I took care that any old files were overwritten. Therefore, no
> files from 3.12 can possibly be being seen by make or by the compiler.
> Unless of course someone was silly enough to mention in the makefile
> or in a #include a file not in the zip, but which existed in 3.12; in
> that case it will be seeing a 3.12 file, but cleaning everything out
> would then simply cause me to get a file not found error of some sort
> instead.
> --
> Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from
> an Allegro-using C++ program compiled with gcc.
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