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HELP!

I have been writing makefiles to run under djgpp; GNU-make, including the djgpp iteration, blows away NMAKE (no big news flash here). I know that it may be a problem running djgpp under command-line CMD.EXE in Windows 2000, but that is the environment the MS-heads here have selected. I have been having quite a series of problems and inconsistencies, e.g. moving from make 3.73 to 3.79.1, but have resolved most of them. I have just slammed into a wall, though.

The project that is being configured to build with GNU-make is a decent-size directory tree. The build-tree has been set up to fully recurse from any location in the tree. Herein lies one of the major inconsistencies: when doing a build from the root of the tree (or any sufficiently large branch), the results are unpredictable. For reasons unknown, I have witnessed builds that complete successfully and builds that fail midway through, complaining of being unable to write to memory, e.g. 'The instruction at "0x0f048d8a" referenced memory at "0x01340ffc". The memory could not be "written".' The failures occur at various places in builds done from the same location. There was nothing different that was done between the successes and failures, aside from being in a different 'DOS box'. Per the guru-help request, 'ENVIRON.TXT' is attached and ' go32-v2' yielded

go32/v2 version 2.0 built Dec 24 1999 17:46:57
Usage: go32 coff-image [args]
Rename this to go32.exe only if you need a go32 that can run v2 binaries as
well as v1 binaries (old makefiles). Put ahead of the old go32 in your PATH
but do not delete your old go32 - leave it in the PATH after this one.
Set GO32_V2_DEBUG=y in the environment to get verbose output.

DPMI memory available: 77748 Kb
DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb

There are no CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files to include.

Next, while make resolves and builds a filename larger than 8.3, for some reason other rules won't work against these files. And this is with 'LFN=y' in the DJGPP.ENV file. For example, the rule

%.aso: %.as
asc $*.as $(OPT_AS_COMPILE)

will build 'reactions.as', producing 'reactions.aso'. This object file is then included in the link rule

$(TRG_AGRUNT): $(OBJ_AGRUNT)
asl $(OPT_AS_LINK) -o $@ $^

which produces the command-line (emphasis added)

asl -v -o agrunt.asd stiffarm.aso lateral.aso hits.aso qb.aso idle.aso run.aso lineup.aso getup.aso tackles.aso catches.aso throw.aso taunts.aso mills.aso victory.aso huddle.aso blocks.aso kicks.aso reactions.aso hurdles.aso

which then aborts the build with a link error. If this same line is simply entered to the command-line, the link is successful. Also, the 'clean' rule process

$(foreach VAR,$(TRGS_CLN),@if exist $(VAR) $(RM) $(VAR)$(NEWLINE))

will not remove 'reactions.aso', though the 'if' is executed against this file. And again, if entered as a command, this 'if' will remove the file. When checked with a -n, these problem lines are correctly displayed, but it seems that the filename is being truncated to 8.3 (but not with the implicit build rule).

Last, the most mysterious problem of all. I have no idea why

TRGS := ball.$(RTD)

OBJS := $(TRGS:.$(RTD)=.$(TDL))

SRCS := $(TEXS)

.PRECIOUS: $(OBJS)

#---------------------------------------
# Make specified targets.
#---------------------------------------
all: $(TRGS)
@echo $(MSG_MAKING) $(MSG_DIR) $(MSG_COMPLETE)

%.$(RTD): %.$(TDL) $(SRCS)
@$(GNTEXTDT) $<

%.$(TDL): $(SRCS)
@$(GENTLOAD) $*

causes make to error-out with "make.exe: *** No rule to make target `ball.RTD', needed by `all'. Stop." Looks to me like the rule is right there, and this *exact* set of rules works fine in other makefiles.

I hope this helps determine what problem(s) I am having. I am truly in the dark as to where to go next; wish linux was an option. And while there may not be any immediate solutions, may I at least bother for an acknowledgement to this, as there is a fair quantity of development-pressure on my end (as if THAT was anything new).

Thank you for your attention.

Daniel Jon Thompson

dthompso AT midwaygames DOT com

danielt55 AT earthlink DOT net

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