Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 20:18:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tn3270 won't make depend... Message-ID: <4005.831093524@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 1996 22:17:01 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.93.960502220916.253B-100000@freebsd.ki.net>
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> Hi again...
>
> I've hit this problem before, and for the life of me, can't
> recall what I did to fix it :( When I try to do a make depend on
> /usr/src/usr.bin/tn3270, I get this error:
>
> < /usr/src/usr.bin/tn3270/mset/../ctlr/unix.kbd > astosc.OUT
> /usr/src/usr.bin/tn3270/mset/../tools/mkastosc/obj/mkastosc: not found
> *** Error code 2
Uh, Marc... This is painfully obvious!
> Now, I know *why* it gives me the error, in that it can't find
> mkastosc in the obj directory...but I'm not using an obj directory :(
Right.. Keep going.. :-)
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13623 May 2 21:57 mkastosc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 653 May 2 21:57 ebc_disp.o
TADA! Give the man a cee-gar! He's not using an obj directory here
and so, wonder of wonders, the reference in mset _isn't_ finding it in
obj!
How about that! :-)
Now, if you'd reported this as an error in tn3270/mset then I'd have
said "Gee, you're right! It should be looking conditionally in the
obj dir for those people who, for some strange reason, believe in
dropping their objects directly under /usr/src!" (which I have, in
fact, now fixed - thanks for bringing it to my attention, however
indirectly!).
However, that's not the question you asked and I'm now going to yell
at you a little over this one because of what what we've already
well-established as a tendency on your part to go shrieking into the
sunset at the first sign of trouble without actually stopping to LOOK
at the problem and ponder it out for yourself. If you'd even *looked*
at the Makefile in question, for example, it would have stood out like
a neon sign, dude! :-(
If I were a fireman, this would sort of be the equivalent of arriving
at the scene of a fire alarm to find a burning matchbook lying on the
ground and a pair of bystanders gawping at it, a bucket of water
sitting at their feet.
Fireman: "Did you guys ring the fire alarm?"
Bystanders: "Yup! That was us! This here matchbook is ON FIRE!"
Fireman: "Uh, why didn't you guys just put it out?"
Bystanders: "Huh? Put it out? You mean us? With what?"
F: "With that BUCKET OF WATER, RIGHT THERE! At your feet!"
B: "Our feet?"
F: [points down]
B: "Oh! Down there! Hot damn, we have feet! And look! There's a bucket!
Right there! And it's full of water! My! Thanks, Mr. Fireman!"
[They go dancing down the street, arm in arm, singing: "We have
feet! We have water! We can put out fires!"]
The matchbook burns out as the fireman stands there, sadly shaking his
head.
Jordan
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