X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <15298152.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:57:53 -0800 (PST) From: nobody To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin emulates an environment closest to ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Nabble-From: dailykos AT budweiser DOT com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m15JwUJg013996 Greg Chicares-2 wrote: > > What system-specific issues do you expect to encounter, > or have you encountered on other platforms? > I personally dont know. Im trying to compile source code with makefiles that I did not make myself. The ReadMe that comes with it tells me to run these commands: { % cd /usr/local/hsf % make -f makefile.mak instarch INSTARCH= % make -f makefile.mak bare % make -f makefile.mak depend % make -f makefile.mak install The first make invocation uses the instarch option to install architecture-dependent files required to support the compilation and execution of the distribution’s programs and libraries. The actual architecture is defined by replacing the argument with one of the extensions listed in Table 2. ( SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, DEC OSF (Digital UNIX), or IRIX ) For example, “INSTARCH=sun” must be used to compile the distribution on computers running SunOS 4.1.X. If you are installing this software on a machine not listed in Table 2, you first need to determine which set of architecture-dependent files is most similar to those required by your particular computer. Invoke make using the instarch option with INSTARCH set to the closest known architecture. } When I run "make -f makefile.mak depend" depending on what architecture i specify I either get "language M not recognized" or it tells me that my headers and C files cant be found. So im takin a stab in the dark and guessing that choosing the closest architecture is a good place to start. Greg Chicares-2 wrote: > > Are you using autotools? > no :confused: as I said in the previous reply (and as youve undoubtly grasped by now) Im new to *Nix. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-emulates-an-environment-closest-to-...-tp15296985p15298152.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/