[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.svn Makefile problem in forms (OSGeo4W)

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> any idea about this?
> 
> -> make: o: Command not found

> $ make
> o /osgeo4w/usr/src/grass643RC2/dist.i686-pc-msys/lib/libgrass_form.6.4.3RC2

$(SHLIB_LD) and $(SHLIB_SUFFIX) are empty.

The above command is the result of expanding:

	$(SHLIB_LD) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $^ $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(DLLMAIN_OBJ)

from Shlib.make. If $(SHLIB_LD) is empty, the - will be the first
character in the command, and a leading - indicates that errors are
ignored. The executed command will start with the "o ".

The fact that the filename refers to dist.i686-pc-msys suggests that
this is a consequence of the system name (as reported by uname)
changing from "mingw32" to "msys"; see the grass-dev thread at the
beginning of this month entitled:

	Error compiling GRASS 7 on Windows - Unknown platform i686-pc-msys

for a similar issue with GRASS 7.

6.x's aclocal.m4 still has the old platform-detection code (taken from
Tcl/Tk). As this uses uname directly, using --host won't help (the 7.x
version uses $host, which is set by config.guess based upon uname but
can be overridden by --host).

It can probably be fixed with something like:

	-        MINGW*)
	+        MINGW* | MSYS*)

followed by re-generating configure.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>