[Xapian-discuss] [Fwd: Irix install of omega fails.]

[Jim Lynch]

OK, after further investigation I've found some things out.

If you put the -no_prelink in before you compile the first time, the 
make fails.  You have to do a make.  Make the change and then do another 
make.  But that's not the source of the problem.  The problem is the 
second make.  This is confusing. 

Starting from scratch, both the Irix make and the GNU make work the same 
way.  I was mistaken before.  The first time you run the make, it 
creates everything OK.  The second make for some reason thinks that 
omindex needs to be rebuilt and attempts to do that.  For some reason 
the remaking of the omindex is what is failing.  That's why after the 
first make you've got to edit the Makefile. 

I'm thinking that something that omindex depends on is being regenerated 
in a step after omindex gets built and that object/library has the extra 
stuff in it that the loader is complaining about, hence the requirement 
for the -no_prefix for the second make.

Did any of that make sense?

Jim.

Olly Betts wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:07:39AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
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>>OK, gmake fixes the skipped dependencies. 
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>Some vendor makes can be problematic when building outside the source
>directory ("VPATH builds") but I've no idea what's going wrong here.
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>>the ./configure LDFLAGS = -no_prelink fails.  Some of the loads won't 
>>work with that flag.  They can't resolve some of the references.  It's 
>>only the omindex step that needs it.
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>Better fix it automatically them I guess.  What do these commands output
>on IRIX (run from the omega source directory):
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>./config.guess
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>which CC
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>Cheers,
>    Olly
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