Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:30:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: LD errors compiling source from gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Frank Donahoe wrote:

> > > c:/djg/tmp/dj200000: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `-Wl,-('
> > > c:/djg/tmp/dj200000: line 1: `gcc -g -O2 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -W
> > > -Wall -o mpicalc.exe  mpicalc.o ../cipher/libcipher.a ../mpi/libmpi.a
> > > ../util/libutil.a  -Wl,-( ../mpi/libmpi.a -)'
> > 
> > That's because parens are special to Bash, you need to escape them or
> > quote them.
> > 
> 
> "redir" invoked from the DOS prompt was running "make".  "bash" was only
> used to run "configure".

Those c:/djg/tmp/dj200000 file names tell quite clearly that Bash
*was* invoked.  The error message wording, ``syntax error near
unexpected token'', is also Bash style.

If the Makefile said "SHELL = /bin/sh", and you have sh.exe somewhere
on your PATH, then Make will invoke Bash the moment it sees a
parenthesis, because parentheses are special shell characters, and
Make cannot handle them on its own.  This is explained in the Make
manual.

> Is "ifdef DOS appropriate?

No, you should use "#ifdef __DJGPP__".  This is specific to the DJGPP
configuration, someone else could come up with a DOS compiler that
doesn't prepend underscores.

> What will this mean for all the C sources using "libmpi.a"?

Nothing.  The problem should be solved in the assembly sources, not in C.