On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:07:28PM -0800, Joe Siebenmann wrote:
> Now make goes about 90% of the way through, till it gets to:
>
> multigen (myapp).def
> make: *** [(myapp)-sections.o] Error 255
>
> I haven't changed the makefile at all, I'll just have to try and
> investigate exactly what's happening..
I suspect the issue is not a "prc-tools problem", as in your subject,
but merely a "Joe's makefile is broken" problem.
You do not say what version of prc-tools you are using. If you are
using 2.2 and the error you are encountering pertains to multigen exactly
as above, then I suggest you reread the prc-tools 2.2 release notes.
Your filenames also seem somewhat odd, and would confuse a Unix shell
(but I have no comment as to the shell you are using). I haven't seen
your makefile (and I don't want to), but I would speculate that you are
using one of those insanely complicated makefiles that people seem to
favour, with pointless variables everywhere:
myapp = joes-super-memopad # whatever the app is really called
$(myapp).o: $(myapp).c
m68k-palmos-gcc -c $(myapp).c
[etc]
and would suggest that it looks a bit like you've dropped the "$" from
some of the "$(myapp)" invocations. This could well be a syntax error
that the shell would return some random error code for, like 255, for
example. (I was going to comment on this in your first posting if it
had been surrounded by a little less ranting :-(.)
This is the fourth time this year that you, Joe Siebenmann, have posted
with a subject line claiming "prc-tools problems" or "prc-tools bugs".
None of the previous three turned out to relate to actual bugs or
problems in prc-tools, and I doubt whether this one will either.
I for one would really appreciate it if next time you could use a more
appropriate, more specific, less inflammatory, and less misleading
subject line. In fact, I probably won't bother reading future postings
from you generically entitled "bug in prc-tools (film at 11)", because I
know that typically they don't reflect any such thing.
As usual, see also
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
John
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