[Freedos-user] make-me crazy.
Ahhh, it's amazing; not one tutorial specifically for the dos version of 'make'; even what there is, not too specific. To wit: indeed, some thing you are trying to install,say , HX, GEM, etc., they do include makefiles, but they don't tell you where to put the makefile. So, you keep trying to use the wonderful 'make' command, and it keeps returning makefile not present; target not defined; I guess this means anyone who has to ask is too stupid to be let into the 'cabbal'. It seems to have been too trivial for the installation instructions to have included some verbiage like use 'make', where the makefile will be thus-and-such, and should be in thus-and-such place when executing 'make'; this doesn't even begin to explain the nuts-and-bolts of 'make install' ,or even the definition of 'target'!. I have a new policy; if software doesn't have those explicit instructions, I consider it to be a 'non sequitur(or is that sequitor?). This goes double for that well known term, my favorite: bindings. Truthfully, I have seen MATH professors, who if you presented something that poorly defined and out of sequence, would throw an eraser at your head. There is too much gobeldy- gook in computer science. That feels better.--kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] make-me crazy.
- Original Message - From: kurt godel To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] make-me crazy. Ahhh, it's amazing; not one tutorial specifically for the dos version of 'make'; even what there is, not too specific. Just install GNUmake on your PC and go through some of the tutorials you can find on the web. If your Makefiles are simply then you should be able to use some of the very early make utilities available under DOS. I still use make from TurboC 3.0 which works fine on a 8088 PC. Unfortunately the make version supplied with TC2.01 is not that great but perhaps the BC1.01/OpenWatcom one is better. To wit: indeed, some thing you are trying to install,say , HX, GEM, etc., they do include makefiles, but they don't tell you where to put the makefile. As mentioned by Jim the default make file name is Makefile. You can call a different makefile with the -f option. Makefiles are very powerful and a necessity for a complicated software projects. Hans www.ht-lab.com -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] make-me crazy.
Hello Ahhh, it's amazing; not one tutorial specifically for the dos version of 'make'; even what there is, not too specific. To wit: indeed, some thing you are trying to install,say , HX, GEM, etc., they do include makefiles, [snip] You mentioned HX so I'm forced to feel somewhat responsible. However, I don't know what you're talking about nor what you're trying to do. Is your post intended to be a bug report? Then it is a report of rather *questionable* quality and can easily compete in this regard with the one from Kink InuYasha recently. If you have the attitude that you're a - potential - customer and that because of this people should feed you with the information you need then I'll have to disappoint you. It doesn't work this way. It's your turn, you'll have to try to explain - in a structured and detailed format - what you're trying to do and what didn't work as you expected. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
