They must be out to get you!
It is going to depend on a few things. Which compiler do you have? What
version?
Are your libraries all installed and up to date, Have you read all of the
installation notes properly? Have you checked that the code has been
successfully built on your system before?
Doing a "make" on a system on which the code was designed would
be highly reliable. However, to maximise the number of architectures that
can accept and run a program, a makefile has to be especially constructed
to determine all the best and most appropriate compiler directives and code
mofdifications in order to get it to compile on the greatest number of
systems.
Since the permutations of target systems configuration is so high, this is
a complex undertaking. I am actually surprised that so many programs do
compile without a hitch.
The best thing to do would be to read the installation notes very carefully,
and make sure that your system has the required environment variables
and versions of libraries.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:45, you wrote:
> Why is it that 75% of the "make" commands I do fail? It is very rare that
> I can compile a C or C++ program without it failing somewhere. What's up
> with that?
>
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