----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "makemaker" <makemaker@perl.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: Re: dmake.exe: Error -- Don't know how to make `static'
> Sisyphus wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Probably more of a 'dmake' issue than anything else .... but I don't know > >where else I should ask about it. > > > I believe it is a dmake bug. > > I've added it to the end of the following "issue" on OpenOffice.org, who > are now developing/maintaining dmake: > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43310 > > This "issue" originally related to another problem with "::" that you > previously contacted me about (and which is now fixed), but I have since > had cause to re-open the issue with two other problems involving "::". > This makes it three now. > Yes - I wondered whether that might have been the problem, and briefly tried replacing some of the instances of "::" with ":", but obviously not the *appropriate* instances :-) When I try the changes you specify below, it works fine. > As you can see from what I just added to that bug report, if you just > change the "::" to ":" in the lines "all :: static" and "static :: > libmylib$(LIB_EXT)" then it will all work OK. Alternatively, removing > "all" and "static" from the ".PHONY" list also works. However, I don't > believe that either of these things should be necessary -- the makefile > should work as written. > > I notice that MakeMaker output two warnings, though: > > Warning (non-fatal): Target 'dynamic' depends on targets in skipped > section 'dynamic_lib' > Warning (non-fatal): Target 'static' depends on targets in skipped > section 'static_lib' > > Is this relevant? > > If not then I guess we just need to wait for the dmake bug to be fixed. > I've reported half a dozen or more issues now, and they've all be dealt > with fairly speedily, so I'm hopeful that this will be resolved soon. > > This is the last outstanding issue that I currently have, so when it is > fixed I will release a new build of dmake to CPAN. > Looking forward to it. Thanks for your excellent work. Cheers, Rob
