On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:40:01PM -0500, Binesh Bannerjee wrote:
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>On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, David Dawes wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 04:27:26PM -0500, Binesh Bannerjee wrote:
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>> >Hi...
>> >    I've been trying to compile XFree86-4.3.0 ... And, actually the
>> >_compile_ (make World) works for me. When I try to make install tho,
>> >I get this error: (PARTIAL... I'll put a link to the full error somewhere,
>> >and not consume bandwith...)
>>
>> Did you change any build options from their defaults?
>>
>> Try 'make WORLDOPTS= World' and see where it stops, or search your World
>> log file for the first error.  By default 'make World' will continue
>> beyond errors.  I've never liked that behaviour personally, but it's
>> easy to override by setting WORLDOPTS to be empty as above.
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>Cool! Thanks!
>
>I'm with you on not liking that behaviour... I assumed that since make

We could change the default, and let those who like the current behaviour
run 'make WORLDOPTS=-k'.  Since the original reasons for this are less
valid now (builds are much faster than they once were), and since it
catches a lot of people out, maybe now is a good time to change the
default.  Would anyone object strongly to that?

>World ran to completion, there were no errors. Turned out that the error
>was that X assumes that cpp is in /usr/bin/cpp (which since I removed the
>RH gcc and friends and installed from source was in /usr/local/bin/cpp.)
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>I made a link to /usr/local/bin/cpp in /usr/bin/cpp and everything ran
>fine!

Maybe it'd be better to have cpp set to just 'cpp'?  It used to have a
full path because it used to be set to /lib/cpp, which isn't likely to
be in anyone's search path.  BTW, the /bin/cpp setting broke my RH 5.2
test build until I set it to /lib/cpp in host.def.  I don't remember
why it was changed from /lib/cpp, unless recent Linux distros don't have
that link anymore.

David
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David Dawes
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