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| From | jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Compiler issues |
| Date | 2015-07-21 17:13 +0000 |
| Organization | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| Message-ID | <d17ctmF3n60U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink) |
| References | <moj2hb$eh3$1@ns2.nl2k.ab.ca> <mojiqj$8a1$1@dont-email.me> <molqiv$lp4$1@ns2.nl2k.ab.ca> |
The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> In article <mojiqj$8a1$1@dont-email.me>,
> jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
> >This is just a coincidence and you should look for the error elsewhere
> Well this morning comipling Exim 4.86 RC5 I got
> 2015-07-21 09:13:17 Exim configuration error in line 763 of /usr/exim/configure.out:
> "routers" is not a known configuration section name
> Did not happen in RC4.
> Just an exmaple.
And what got this to do with the compiler? That's not a compiler
error message, nor would I assume that a file named configure.out
would contain any error messages from a compiler. Looks more like
the output from some 'configure' script, which is run before the
compiler ever gets invoked.
Of course, if you run 'gmake' on some unknown makefile all
kind of things could happen, depending of what's the con-
tent of the makefile. A makefile is just a file with of
commands to execute (not necessarily always starting a
compiler, mind you), so running 'gmake' (with or without
-j) on some unkown makefile is not much different to running
some script or program you don't know what it's going to do.
I could easily write a makefile that does nothing but wiping
the whole system, given the necessary privileges (it's just 2
lines;-) So, keep in mind that 'make' isn't the compiler, it's
just a kind of scripting language that often is used to start
the compiler when a project consisting of several source files
has to be build (beside lots of other things).
And the '-j' option (followed by a number) just tells make to
try to use as many processes as that number (if possible) to do
what's in the makefile. I use it all the time since it allows
to use all the cores for compiling stuff in parallel and thus
it shortens the time to build something more complex, and I've
never had any issues.
Regards, Jens
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Re: Compiler issues jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-20 21:41 +0200
Re: Compiler issues doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-07-21 16:04 +0000
Re: Compiler issues jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-07-21 17:13 +0000
Re: Compiler issues Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-21 11:21 -0600
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Re: Compiler issues doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-07-27 04:24 +0000
Re: Compiler issues Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-27 11:47 -0700
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