Jochen :
You could be on to something here then if Quanta is shipping an old version, then mine must be REALLY old ! However, I've patched the QMAKE executable to replace -XERROR with spaces (so the length stays the same !), I've been unable to get any of the -XERROR is not a valid option messages, but I've noticed that ERRORS is selected on startup. if I hit LIST then the big do, then select ERRORS again, I do get -XERROR is not a valid option on my next 'big do'. With the patched version, I get -PC is not a valid option now :o( So I once more patch the execuatble to remove the -PC option, and this time it all JUST WORKS !!! So we have a solution, -XERROR and -PC are not acceptable options for some QUANTA versions of QMAC. Simple do a binary edit of the program and put spaces over the -XERROR and -PC in the file and save it again. These options only occur once in the entire file. Maybe Bernd could add a new config option for version of QMAC and check to see if this is before the introduction of the XERROR and PC options. Hooray (I think) I've now tried a quick qmake on the smsq sources configured for dev8_ and guess what, the version of QMAC that I have doesn't like <TAB> characters in it's source file. And the source is full of files with <TAB>s in : AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH !!! Regards, Norman. ------------------------------------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com ------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jochen Merz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] qmake, the source and my inferior brain .... Hi John, well, this could be the solution. The version of QMAC we all have (at least Bernd and myself) is 1.06. Sorry, but it is not quite our fault if the version which Quanta delivers is so very much out of date. Our version 1.06 dates back to March 1998 ("only" over 4 years) and, thinking about this, I am absolutely sure that I told Quanta a long time ago when I was buying QMACs off them for resale that their version IS very old and they should update it. Regards Jochen John Hall wrote: > Per Witte wrote: > > > Loading the link file into Qmake V4.21 I get: > > > > Error: ram1_abc_asm not found. > > > > Now, you can bet your bottom euro that that file DOES exist! There > > is no explanation as to whats going on, no log file and no other > > error message. > > Like Norman, I have duplicated your test case and get the same result. > However, in my case, I also get the message "-XERROR is not a valid > option" which I think is generated by QMac. If I'm right, this means > that ram1_abc_asm is found but never assembled and QMake is actually > telling us that it can't find the file it's trying to make, i.e. > ram1_abc_rel... > > It seems to me that the root of the problem is the command string that > QMake is sending to QMac, which in turn implies that Jochen, Bernt and > Marcel have a version of QMac that understands "-XERROR" while you, me > and Norman do not! > > The problem with this theory is that I have QMac 1.01 which, according > to John Gilpin, is still the version that Quanta supply... > > John > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
