[Orca-users] Re: compile errors

Blair Zajac blair at akamai.com
Thu Mar 9 11:44:01 PST 2000


There's a problem with the Makefile on some systems where it doesn't
seem to pick up the $< variable that is in the dependency, which is
$(ORCA).  Now its explicitly spelled out and it works.

Blair

Brian Hostetler wrote:
> 
> From: "Brian Hostetler" <bhostetler at iprint.com>
> 
> My bad. After configure,  the makefile was changed to the default. I made
> the change after configure and make worked.
> 
> What exactly did I just do?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blair at akamai.com [mailto:blair at akamai.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: orca-users at onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [orca-users] compile errors
> 
> From: Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com>
> 
> Did the command that was run change.  In the first example, the command
> was
> 
> pod2man > orca.man
> 
> which is incorrect.  The change to the Makefile should run
> 
> pod2man ../src/orca.pl > orca.man
> 
> Blair
> 
> Brian Hostetler wrote:
> >
> > From: "Brian Hostetler" <bhostetler at iprint.com>
> >
> > Didn't work, same error. I wonder, what are the requirements for orca to
> > compile beyond the standard Solaris install? Obviously gcc, perl, but
> could
> > I be missing something else?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blair at akamai.com [mailto:blair at akamai.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:27 AM
> > To: orca-users at onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [orca-users] compile errors
> >
> > From: Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com>
> >
> > A simple fix is to change docs/Makefile to read
> >
> > orca.man: $(ORCA)
> >         pod2man $(ORCA) > $@
> >
> > orca.html: $(ORCA)
> >         pod2html $(ORCA) > $@
> >
> > orca.txt: $(ORCA)
> >         pod2text $(ORCA) > $@
> >
> > Blair
> >
> > bhostetler at iprint.com wrote:
> > >
> > > From: bhostetler at iprint.com
> > >
> > > I'm consistently seeing this error when I make. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > pod2man  > orca.man
> > > /usr/local/bin/pod2man: Need one and only one podpage argument
> > > usage: /usr/local/bin/pod2man [options] podpage
> > > Options are:
> > >         --section=manext      (default "1")
> > >         --release=relpatch    (default "perl 5.005, patch 03")
> > >         --center=string       (default "User Contributed Perl
> > > Documentation")
> > >         --date=string         (default "8/Mar/2000")
> > >         --fixed=font          (default "CW")
> > >         --official            (default NOT)
> > >         --lax                 (default NOT)
> > > *** Error code 2
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `orca.man'
> > > Current working directory /home/brian/orca-0.25/docs
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> > >
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