Re: Problems building Janos 11/5

[Patrick Tullmann <tullmann@cs.utah.edu>]

[For the archives sake.]

Thanks to Edwards help, I can say that his problem is due (mostly) to
a buggy version of make.  The $(wildcard) function in make v3.77 on
Solaris is broken.  Upgrading to v3.78 or downgrading to v3.76 fixes
the problem.

The next version of Janos will include a configure test for this bug.

-Pat

Edward Lewis wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post questions (as opposed to an open
> dicussion list).  Please direct me to the approproate list if this is not
> the right list.
> 
> I am unsuccessful in building janos (11/5 release) on a Solaris 2.7
> machine.  I have narrowed the problem to the line:
> 
> # if CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:/home/lewis/janos-991105/java/classes-debug
> jikes    # 1> .compile_core-output 2>&1
> 
> The token 'jikes' has no arguments, I get a complier usage statement in
> response to this.  I have tracked this to a line in the ./build debug:
> 
> # COMPILE_JAVA    = CLASSPATH=:/home/lewis/janos-991105/java/classes-debug
> jikes
> 
> This seems backwards.
> 
> I have included three things - the setting of the JIKESPATH, the (modified)
> output of ./build-ing with debug turned on and off.  The modification is to
> limit word wrapping - three plusses indicate where I cropped lines.  (The
> "no sp." means that I broke a path name in the middle.)
> 
> I would appreciate any guidance on what parameter I am setting incorrectly,
> or what needs further investigation.
> 
> TIA...
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> [ much useful debugging output deleted. ]