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Can't use Makefile on a mac. Whether tab or 4 spaces the error is: " *** missing separator. Stop."
I am using an M1 powered mac. I am trying to use makefile in a project and to my surprise, no matter what I do it ends being a missing separator error. my Makefile below won't run no matter what. I ...
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Why don’t make check the timestamp when the dependency file is not generated?
I create an ugly Makefile, it worked beyond my expectations. When main.o is not built successfully, the executable is built every time I make. In my opinion, after the main.o target command is ...
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What exactly cmake say: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ledit or /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses?
I am using ubuntu 20.04.
I am doing debugging of building with cmake.
What exactly cmake say: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ledit, i.e.what is ledit?
What is /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses exactly?
I ...
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Makefile with source command not working
I have the following Makefile
env:
source venv/bin/activate
When I do make env to activate a python virtual env, I'm getting the following error
source venv/bin/activate make: source: No such ...
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Variables not being set in Makefile
I have to set the profile variable in Makefile, if it's not set by default, here is my approach.
But when I run this, echo statements work fine, but variables are not being set.
set_vars:
if [ &...
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cd in a Makefile doesn't seems to be taken into account after sshfs
I have a Makefile with a sshfs command followed with a cd command:
mr: # mount-remote
sshfs -p 5022 -o nonempty [email protected]:mnt /home/julien/myworking_path
cd ./...
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Makefile: Why command sequece is executed before call it?
Below makefile, ${PATH}/CMD0.log is generated by CMD0.
check_file is command sequence to check warnings from CMD0.log. First it will check if CMD0.log exists.
When run make clean; make, it shows CMD0....
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A try to write a batch script to find all the .c files in the current directory and compile them
I was trying to write a make analog in windows, using batch files
But I am a noob in batch scripting, here is my try -
I am trying to make a batch script which fill find all the .c files in the ...
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GnuMake SHELL under windows
I am trying to make a simple makefile (GNU Make 3.81) work under windows, using cygwin installed with the git-for-windows "distro".
Everything seems to work, but the SHELL. It always shows &...
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Capture output of powershell command in makefile on windows
I'm trying to create a Makefile that will work on both windows and unix-based operating systems. (For reference, the windows version of make it should work with can be found here). As part of the ...
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Kali Linux won't install Wise Tiger Wireless Adapter Driver
I have currently dual booted Kali Linux and I have a Wise Tiger WT-AC9006 wireless adapter. I have downloaded the driver from the company site and attempted to install it via the command line:
./...
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RPC header not found despite being installed
I'm trying to install MB-system on my Arch Linux machine. I installed all necessary dependencies and have the package libtirpc installed.
When running the configure script, it ends with:
checking rpc/...
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How to fix cmake error on payday 2 super blt source in debian buster
I have debian 10 running on a virtual machine inside windows 10.
I have installed build-essential, openssl, libssl-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, and cmake.
I am trying to have cmake generate a makefile ...
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Can one make symlinks in Makefiles that work on Linux and Windows?
I have a project comprised of tasks. Each task has three subdirectories: input, code, and output. In the code directory resides a Makefile with the recipes needed to make the output from the code and ...
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DMX4LINUX drivers wont build properly
I am currently troubleshooting a situation in which I am trying to build drivers for ENTECC'S Open DMX to usb converter. I am currently building this on a Raspberry Pi 3, using the pre release ...
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autotools dosnt create Makefile.im or Makefile on new computer
So i have a problem compiling my software project on my new computer. Unfortunately my old computer is broken and i have to use the new one.
My Problem is, that i cant build my software project the ...
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cocotb-config: command not found
Im running into an issue with cocotb make files cant be found??
$ git clone https://github.com/potentialventures/cocotb
Cloning into 'cocotb'...
$ cd cocotb/examples/endian_swapper/tests
$ make ...
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Install R 3.5.2 under Ubuntu: "jni.h: No such file or directory"
I have a problem with installing the newest version of R, an error "fatal error: jni.h: No such file or directory" that I don't understand appeared.
Here is what I did before getting an error in the ...
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Has anyone managed to build the STAF framework on raspberry pi with os raspbian v9?
STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework) is a open source framework for testing automation http://staf.sourceforge.net/index.php.
It is supported for several platform but not yet for raspberry, ...
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Trying to compile Asylia via its makefile, with MinGW... Wrong compiler? How to fix?
I'm trying to compile Asylia via its makefile, with MinGW... Am I using the wrong compiler?
It's seems MinGW is getting stuck on the square brackets in "$(BUILD):"... And square brackets in MinGW are ...
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What does 'xxx' mean in Makefile? [closed]
I'm trying to looking for the meaning of 'xxxxxx' in Makefile as the below example.
## Variables and scripts
NCROOT = `ncroot`
TEST_NAME = apb_uart_rx_tx
what is the ncroot? Is ...
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Is this make behavior expected?
My folder structure looks like this:
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├── app.c
├── inc
│ ├── butil.h
│ └── libs
│ ├── flagutil.h
│ ├── libflagutil.c
│ └── libflagutil.o
└── Makefile
My Makefile looks like ...
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Failed to compile with make command
I'm working on cygwin. Most Unix commands work just fine. Also I can compile with g++ and gcc, but I get the error below when I execute make:
/cygdrive/b/tpm/src
$ make -f makefile.mak
"c:/program ...
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configure command doesn't generate Makefile?
Here is my code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/tpm2-tss$ ./configure --enable-unit
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file ...
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Linux From Scratch [closed]
I am currently doing Linux From Scratch.I downloaded some packages.I unzip them using the "tar" command and do the following inside that extracted package:
configure
make
make test
make install
One ...
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Use variable inside of command in Makefile
Let's say the LINK variable contains the following: 1a2b3c. I'd like to display Full path: /home/build/1a2b3c.
PWD is currently at /home;
I can't get the following to work:
@echo "Full path: $(...
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How to port $(shell find . -name '*.cpp') on windows?
I have this in makefile:
# find cpp files in subdirectories
SOURCES := $(shell find . -name '*.cpp')
So I wanted to make generic FIND command that behaves correctly on windows and linux:
ifeq ($(OS)...
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Unable to use make when building fbida (fbi) from source
I am trying to install fbida (Fbi), framebuffer image viewer, on Ubuntu 16.04. I am trying to build from source fbida v2.13 (www.kraxel.org/releases/fbida/) since when I do install using sudo apt-get ...
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Why Make keeps creating directory over and over?
i have a makefile that creates some docs from my source:
/home/share/htdocs:
#installs apache and make sure we have /htdocs...
/home/share/htdocs/doxjs: /home/share/htdocs
mkdir -p $@
chgrp ...
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Send env to a makefile target
I am trying to set an env var which is git sha1 commit for a makefile target. I am setting a lot of env vars and only this fails with no such file or directory error. I am hell confused. Please help ...
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How to escape "$@" in a makefile?
test:
@echo "#!/bin/bash\njava -classpath \"$(CLASSPATH)\" com.atm.ATM \"$@\"" > test
@chmod a+x test
I am trying to escape the "$@" so that it literally appears in the "test" script as "$@...
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Why use RANLIB=echo in a makefile?
I generally have RANLIB=ranlib in a makefile, but I came across makefiles with RANLIB=echo or RANLIB=@echo or RANLIB=echo >/dev/null. I am looking for an explanation for such usages.
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Running scripted commands within a makefile (Linux make)
I have battled with this for the most of last night.
I want to rename all the files xxxx-yyyy to xxxx:yyyy in a folder from a makefile.
I have a renamefiles.sh which does the job fine:
#!/bin/sh
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Understanding a makefile script for Linux
I am using fpgalink fx2 to build on a Windows machine. Here is makefile what is meaning of following script :
BRANCH := $(shell TRY=$(CURDIR)
BRANCH=dev
while [ "$${TRY}" != "$(ROOT)" -a "$${TRY}" !=...
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Makefile issues with interactive shells started as a target
Currently having a weird problem:
Got a Makefile to get some handy shortcuts inside a Project:
shell:
docker exec -it $(web) sh
...
..which basically invokes an interactive shell inside a ...
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Usage of Bash commands in Nested Loops in Makefile
I want to use bash commands in nested loops in makefile,
my current code is not working. Can some one guide me what can be the problem. I have written a simple code in test target. Here, I want to go ...
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Should make contain `-rm` or `rm -f` [closed]
The question should be clear from the title, but here goes.
Which is better, or, are there any better options:
thing:
rm -f a.file b.file
doTheMake
thing:
-rm a.file b.file
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Bash commands in Makefile
I want to use bash commands in Makefile along with MATLAB scripts. Currently when i put a simple bash command in Makefile and run that target, I get error
/bin/bash: ./test1: No such file or ...
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Makefile doesn't work with "modules"
I have this makefile of WrapFS. My problem is that make doesn't work when I add "modules" to all part. When I delete "modules", make works, yet doesn't generate wrapfs.ko.
WRAPFS_VERSION="0.1"
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What are the -DPOSIX and -DXWINDOWS flags for in Makefiles?
I see -DPOSIX has something to do with POSIX compliancy...which I can kinda get my head around because my program uses a posix library (pthreads) but I can't dig up anything relevant on what -...
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How do I make sure my code is compiling with -o3 in gnu make?
I have a huge Makefile I'm working with and trying to trim down. Right now, it's layed out to build several different programs with tons of options I'll never use. My hope is to first make sure the ...
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Proper syntax for escaping a `$` in a regex in a bash shell script/makefile?
I'm running a Makefile which includes the following line...
find ./ -type f -regextype emacs -regex ".*tests$" | xargs rm -f
and am getting an error:
find ./ -type f -regextype emacs -regex ".*...
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How to add a 'greek' character in the path using cURL?
I have a Makefile where one of many tasks is to upload a file using cURL, one of these files, has a greek character in the name and when I try to upload using cURL, I receive this error:
curl: (43) A ...
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GCC option : Unrecognized command line
I am trying to build my project with the gcc compiler, but I get this error:
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mthumb'
Isn't -mthumb a default option for gcc?
output of gcc --version:...
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How do I write a Makefile target for hundreds of numbered files?
I have some art projects that use blender as part of the toolchain. I would like to be able to write a Makefile target which specifies that several hundred files can be updated with a single command. ...
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Linux - make install without replacing symlinks
I recently (and foolishly, since there is a simple solution here, had I set --prefix= option to something other than it's default /usr/bin) configured and maked gcc-4.9.1, without setting the --prefix=...
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./xsum: Permission denied make: *** [xsum.out] Error 126
I am trying to insall f2c/f77 compiler on mac osx using the instructions given http://www.webmo.net/support/fortran_osx.html and I get the following error :
./xsum: Permission denied
make: *** [xsum....
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Removing multiple files from directory, as specified by variable in Makefile
I have a Makefile with the following configured for installing man pages
MANDIR = /usr/share/man/man1
MANPAGES = exec1.1 exec2.1
make install triggers the following:
install: $(MANPAGES)
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"chown" for "make install" command?
On my Linux server, I accidentally executed sudo make install for an application install. I intended to execute make install without sudo privilege.
How do I change the ownership of all installed ...
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Is there any way to see make file with all variables substituted
I have huge long makefile written by some other guy, where all coomands contain variables.
In order to decode what this command is doing i have look around what that variable is and its taking too ...
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