CLibrary makefile not compiling

Hi,

Can someone with DDE 25 please try running Sources.DDE-Examples.Skeletons.examplelib.Mk and see whether it actually runs cc?

With my install it’s making some directories, and then calls “libfile -c -o o.examplelib” without having actually compiled c.examplelib in the first place. Does it work for anyone else?

My install’s a bit of a mess so I’m trying to figure out whether this problem is specific to my system or something more “global”.

Thanks :)

There does seem to be an issue, a dummy examplelib is created but is devoid of actual content.

The library can be compiled with !CC to see what it should be like.

Trying to compile as is results in this:

do mkdir -p o
do mkdir -p oz
do mkdir -p od
do mkdir -p odz
do mkdir -p o
create o._dirs
libfile -c -o o.examplelib 
libfile -c -o o.examplelibzm 
examplelib: library built

It lies. The library made is useless, empty.
[update – surely specifying only -o blah (no input) to LibFile will just create an empty library on top of whatever you expected to be there?]

Comparing the MakeFile with one of the others, I wondered if the problem was that the OBJS was not set to tell the thing what the file should be? So I added this…

# Makefile for examplelib

COMPONENT = examplelib
OBJS = examplelib

include CLibrary

# Dynamic dependencies:

Well, the plus side is that it appears to build something. Sort of. ;-)

AMU: *** WARNING: cycle in dependency graph ***
  to o.examplelib
from o.examplelib
AMU: *** end of cycle ***

cc -c -depend !Depend -throwback   -ff -fah -zM -o oz.examplelib c.examplelib
Norcroft RISC OS ARM C vsn 5.71 [25 Aug 2014]
"c.examplelib", line 4: Warning: extern 'examplelib_funtion' not declared in header
c.examplelib: 1 warning, 0 errors, 0 serious errors
libfile -c -o o.examplelibzm oz.examplelib
examplelib: library built
AMU: *** There are cyclic dependencies in 'makefile' ***
AMU: ***    which have been broken arbitrarily.      ***

I looked at the MakeFile (AcornC/C++.MakeFiles.CLibrary) and figured this is the point where I’d probably put together my own MakeFile to get the job done.

This is crappy (and simplistic) but it will build the library. :-P

# Project:   ExampleLib 

examplelib: o.examplecode 
        LibFile -c -o o.$@ o.examplecode 
        Delete o.examplecode

o.examplecode: 
        cc -c -IC: -throwback c.examplelib -o o.examplecode

Right, so it’s not just me… another one for the bug tracker then!

Bug tracker’s still down so I finally got around to reporting this the old-fashioned way! :)