[10] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Making mh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@athena.mit.edu)
Mon Jul 5 02:21:20 1993
From: ghudson@athena.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 14 May 93 08:03:20 -0400
To: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
Ugh. I have to congratulate the authors of mh for making a simple
job as complicated as possible.
I rewrote the offensive piece of code in getfld.c, but now there seems
to be a problem with the makefiles. It's not clear to me how these
makefiles were generated, but they seem to be intent on relinking
every executable each time they run, using rules like:
ap: xap
xap: ap.o trmsbr.o $(LIBS)
$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ ap.o trmsbr.o $(LDLIBS) $(LDCURSES)
(Curses? Why on earth are they using curses?)
Anyway, whatever generated the makefile is putting a $@ where it
should be putting (in this case) ap. Rather than make ap, this
creates xap and then tries to use its default rule for making ap from
ap.o, which involves linking ap.o and xap together. This is rather
spectacular.
For now, I'm trying copying xap to ap and so forth (there are at least
two dozen of these files). It'd be sort of neat to have makefiles
that work, though. Does anyone know how they were created?
--GBH
