Re: Newbie link problem: Error 1

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:57:01PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> What does '-n' do here?  Trial output with no actual compilation?
> Dependency check?

[man make]
| OPTIONS
[...]
|       -n   Print the commands that would be executed, but do not
|            execute them.

> Ran it.  Nothing memorable in the output.  (That isn't to say there was
> nothing important there, mind you... I probably did miss something.)

| Warning: no term-lib found, you might run into trouble later.
| Warning: no yacc-parser found, you might run into trouble later.

> > + try a "make -n".  Look at the warnings, etc.  A few packages
> >  build things that are needed to complete the "make -n".
> >
> > + If no problem to that point, do a "make".
> >
> > In all cases, when something unexpected shows up, the README, INSTALL
> > and similarly-named files are the place to go.
> 
> I did read both README and README.WIN, but didn't find anything in there
> that seemed to relate.  I didn't know about doc/INSTALL.

doc/INSTALL is mentioned in README:

| For a more detailed description of all the configure options read
| doc/INSTALL.

urs
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