[olug] xmcd Makefile problems

[Brian Wiese]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 08:49:50 -0600
Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox..net> wrote:

|I'm trying to compile xmcd on my RH 7.3 box.  I know just enough about
|makefiles to open one. The xmcd compile is complaining about a rule for
|this target:
|
|make: *** No rule to make target `../labelh_d/libLabelH.a', needed by
|`xmcd'.  Stop.

Try modifing the makefile and replace that ".a" on the end with ".c" ... I
imagine it is a typo.  The .c files are your C source code, the .h are the
header files.  hth.

|The OBJS section of the Makefile contains this entry
|../labelh_d./libLabelH.a
|
|The labelh_d subdirectory is there:
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys          1403 Nov 22 20:56 COPYRIGHT
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys           836 Nov 22 20:56 Imakefile
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys         10499 Nov 22 20:56 LabelH.c
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys          1926 Nov 22 20:56 LabelH.h
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys          2229 Nov 22 20:56 LabelHP.h
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys           636 Nov 22 20:56 Makefile.std
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys           338 Nov 22 20:56 Makevms.com
|-r--r--r--    1 1851     sys           389 Nov 22 20:56 README
|
|What should I stuff in the Makefile and where should I stuff it to get
|this .a file compiled?
|
|TIA
|
|DT
|
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