Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <01bb01be515b$dcf52640$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "J. J. Farrell" Cc: "cygwin" Subject: Re: make and .exe targets Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:04:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 First of all, you picked $PATH from one message. There were several messages I sent directly to him. PATH was the very first suggestion. I do know what AIX is and how it differs from other UNIX flavors. I am very well aware of it. Beside you language has been absolutely nonsense. If you donot know the whole story then you do not jump and start braging about something. As I said $PATH was the verey first suggestion. I also wrote to him about configuration problems. It is hard to say anything unless one sees the system. Using his makefile and source I could compile it. That's what I wrote to him in one of the email. Yes, you said unfortunately you do not know why make is not working. My answer is still in computing world there is nothing like "unfortunate." Something does not work because of mistake. That means "there is no unfortunate configuration" Beside, you just picked couple of mails from mail archive and talked absolutely irrelevant. To answer your question about AIX, I have 3 AIX, 4 SGI origin and one SUN right in my office. I am also the System Information in-charge for my company. I do believe I know the differences in different UNIX flavors. Have good day. Suhaib ----- Original Message ----- From: J. J. Farrell To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 5:44 PM Subject: Re: make and .exe targets >> From Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com Fri Feb 5 12:29:31 1999 >> >> If ld can be execuated from command line and make.exe has problems >> then it is a configuration problem > >That would certainly be one possibility. However, I don't see what >relevance this has to John's problem - I can't see any evidence of >make.exe having any problems. Nor can I see any evidence of any >problems with the makefile. Am I missing something? I suppose there >might be some problem with the environment that make is setting up >for ld, but I certainly can't see how $PATH could have anything to >do with the error being reported. > >> -- if you can also refresh you UNIX knowledge. > >I can refresh my UNIX knowledge, but I don't see any need to do so. >Do you think I need to, and if so what makes you think so? > >> What he got a serious configuration problem :not an unfortunate >> configuration as you >> are trying explain. > >Where do I try to explain that he has "an unfortunate configuration"? >What are you talking about? I said I had no idea what was causing >the problem. > >> Now go way and try to figure out what environment variables means. > >I could do so, but I don't see the point of trying to figure out >something that I understand well. Do you think that I don't know >what "environment variables" means? If so, what makes you think >so? What relevance do environment variables have to any of this? > >I don't understand most of this message; please explain. > >> Bye > >Regards, > jjf > > >> This is getting increasingly silly! >> > >> >> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" >> >> >> >> You have a problem with your environment. Therefore make is unable >> to >> >> ld.exe. >> >> Read my previous message on how to define $PATH. >> > >> >I don't see how $PATH could be involved. ld is executing correctly, but >> >it's reporting a problem with the output file. >> > >> >> Cygwin is a UNIX like environment. Therefore, to use it effectively >> you >> >> should have some >> >> knowledge of UNIX. >> > >> >John said that he has developed on AIX. >> > >> >> When I use your posted Makefile, I get "missing separator" error. I >> do >> >> not get ld.exe not found error. >> >> Missing separator error means there is a problem with your Makefile. >> > >> >I can't see anything wrong with the makefile. Your "missing separator" >> >error is likely to be because you used spaces where a tab is needed >> >when you copied John's makefile. >> > >> >> Cygwin follows UNIX rules >> >> not AIX. You can download a source code for SUN, SGI or LINUX, look >> >> carefully on the Makefile and you >> >> will know how to write a Makefile for a UNIX system. That makefile >> will >> >> work under Cygwin too. >> > >> >AIX is as much a version of UNIX as SunOS and IRIX, and (technically) >> >more so than LINUX. >> > >> >There is no evidence of any problem with the makefile. The problem is >> >that ld has trouble with its output file when invoked via make. I've >> >no idea why, unfortunately. > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com