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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:49:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

> > How does that fix anything?  Where do -ltre and -lintl come
> > from?  Are you adding them to $LIBS?  If so then that's not
> > going to work as you've still got the wrong order.
>
> It didn't help -- I am nearly illerate at make
> (I have some other system knowledge of linking objects
> and library's etc so I do know some of the terminology)
> so all I am doing is trying to parse it out logically
> and systematically trying ideas as I interpret the
> suggestions like "try to add..." or "order is backwards..."

Any reason you're not following the *exact* fix recipe I mentioned in
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00882.html>?

> No one's fault but mine and perhaps the original author,
> but then the software is free so that just leaves me. <grin>
>
> > > Full original make file (it you care to see it, it's here):
> > >
> > > #    Makefile for CRM114
> >
> > Wow.  Just.  Wow.  That makefile is just unbelievable.
> > (Unbelievably bad that is.)  I wonder if the author was
> > molested by automake as a kid and was scarred for life.
> > Nothing else explains the reasoning for doing things like
> > copying the same rule over and over for every .o file.
>
> I am not qualified to have an opinion, I just want it
> to make and run. <grin>

The make utility is pretty smart about what it can do by default --
reading "info make" can be pretty, well, informative (pun intended).
Run "make -p -f /dev/null" to see what the default rules are.
	Igor
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