dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) (10/27/90)
I've had a couple of problems using my old makefiles under the new version of Irix. Firstly, the new Mips linker doesn't like creating executables whose names have extensions if a file of the same name already exists. So I changed the names of my executables from "*.e" to just the root name. This led to my second problem: that pmake sometimes tries really hard to use built-in rules even if I explicitly specify each necessary transformation in the makefile. So, for example, I often use -O3, which means I compile to Ucode intermediate files with -j. But pmake really wants to make "*.o" files on the way to building my executable, and fails because the compiler commands it generates have incompatible options (-O3 and -c). For example, here is my Makefile: .SHELL: name=csh .SUFFIXES: .a .c .h .u .e CFLAGS = -O3 -float LFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) .c.u: cc $(CFLAGS) -j $(.IMPSRC) meander.u: meander.c graphs.h paths.h misc.h paths.u: paths.c paths.h graphs.h misc.h graphs.u: graphs.c graphs.h misc.h meander: meander.u paths.u graphs.u cc $(LFLAGS) -o meander meander.u paths.u graphs.u -lmalloc -lm If I try to "pmake meander", pmake creates the .u files, then tries to create meander.o for no apparent reason. I don't know enough about make to tell if this is a "feature" or a bug. -David Hinds dhinds@cb-iris.stanford.edu