Subject: RE: Compiling for beginners
To: 'Paul Whiting' <paul@whtng.demon.co.uk>
From: John Harrison <John.Harrison@3Dlabs.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/01/1997 09:37:34
On Sunday, November 30, 1997 2:41 PM, Paul Whiting
[SMTP:paul@whtng.demon.co.uk] wrote:
> having a look at it. 'Make' on its own said that it didn't know how to make
> '/usr/local/include/cc/lib.h.'.

Try 'make depend' first.

Makefiles can store a list of files upon which the source code is
dependant. E.g. main.c must be rebuilt if main.h has changed. As system
header files are in different places on different versions of UNIX you
generally have to re-compile the list as above when porting a package.

Can't say as I've ever heard of 'lib.h' as a system header file though.
If it is not present under RiscBSD you might have a problem. However, it
may have been included by another system file and so is not actually
required under BSD.


John Harrison
R&D, 3Dlabs