[Orca-users] orca make error gcc KPIC

[Blair Zajac]

David Michaels wrote:
> I used to get this all the time, but I thought it went away in the r5* 
> builds.  I never quite figured out what caused this.  Near as I can 
> figure, certain Makefiles in the build tree don't pick up on the CC 
> environment variable, and wind up assigning CC as "cc" instead of "gcc", 
> and both KPIC and -xO3 options generate errors.
> 
> I'm sure there's a better way to address this, but I used to fix it with 
> a band-aid by running:
> 
>     cd {orca-build-directory}
>     find . -name Makefile -exec fix-orca-Makefile.sh {} \;
> 
> Here is the fix-orca-Makefile.sh that I've used in the past, and has 
> worked (I haven't tried it with r5* yet, but it'll "probably work").
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
> 
>     if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then
>         makefile=$1
>     else
>         makefile=Makefile
>     fi
> 
>     if [ -f $makefile ]; then
>         ed $makefile <<EOF

Wow, an ed script.  Never saw one of those before :)

Anyway we could get a Perl version :)  It would be easier to maintain.  And 
maybe we should check this into Subversion.

Regards,
Blair