gcl make fails: "No rule to make target ../mp/libmport.a, needed by raw_gcl.
Subject: gcl make fails: "No rule to make target ../mp/libmport.a, needed by raw_gcl.
From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:17:12 +0300
Goran Arbanas wrote:
> Hopefully someone on this mailing list can help me with my newbie problem.
>
> I get the error below when running make on the most recent version of gcl out of cvs repository. I get the same error for gcl 2.4. I am running RH 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10) and have tried gcc 2.95-4 and 3.0.2. Both gave the same error:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/download/gcl/unixport'
> cc -c -I../h -c -o ../mp/mpi.o ../mp/mpi.c
> cc -c -I../h -c -o ../mp/mp2.o ../mp/mp2.c
> make[1]: *** No rule tomake target `../mp/libmport.a', needed by `raw_gcl'. Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/download/gcl/unixport'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> A seemingly identical error was posted on this mailing list in July of 2001, and the proposed solution was to use the most recent version out of cvs (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2001/000197.html). Unfortunatelly, this solution does not seem to work for me.
>
> As a workaournd solution, does anyone know where I could download a precompiled gcl 2.4? I looked for it on the rpmfind.net, but the most recent version of gcl on it was 2.2.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Goran
>
Try gcl-2.3.8beta3 with gcc 2.95 it must be OK.
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