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Re: compiling coda-4.3.13

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:01:30 -0500 (EST)
You must install the termcap library, it's part of the
libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-4
package on a RH 4 machine I use.

We know about the warnings and we are gradually switching to -Wall
compilations to get rid of them.

BTW, there are now RPM's on the ftp site too. 

- Peter -

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, the prophet wrote:

> I have tried compiling coda-4.3.13 (from both the rpm and the tarball),
> and have run into tha same problem with both.  After numerous compiler
> warnings about implicitly casting pointers, I get:
> 
> cc -g -g -gstabs -MD -DLINUX  -I- -I. 
> -I/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-4.3.13/include -I/usr/include
> -DPRIVATE=static   -c filcon.c -o filcon.o
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `-ltermcap', needed by `filcon'.
> Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-4.3.13/coda-src/fail'
> ----> Error in fail
> make[1]: *** [Coda] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-4.3.13/coda-src'
> ----> Error in coda-src
> make: *** [Coda] Error 1
> 
> This looks to me like a bug in a Makefile somewhere -- it is trying to
> build "-ltermcap" instead of treating that as a compiler flag -- but I
> cannot track down where this problem is coming from.  Has anyone else run
> into this?  
> 
> I am running RedHat 4.2 (kernel 2.0.30).  My only unusual patch I'm using
> is one to optimize performance for my Cyrix 6x86 processor... I'd be
> surprised if that was causing me trouble.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Eli Daniel
> 
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Received on 1998-02-03 09:02:38