Date:	Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:11:06 +0200
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Subject:	Re: [grx245]installation problems
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> From: Monika Hendricks <monika DOT hendricks AT t-online DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 8 Aug 2003 11:42:15 GMT
> 
> > Anyway, the problem seems to be that a line that is supposed to
> > delete *.o files fails, right? 
> 
> I'm not sure. I would be happy if *.o files would be created.

One possible problem might be that it does a "make clean" for some
reason.  I don't have the makefile in front of me, but it strikes me
as something weird to do when building a library.

> > Does it help to prepend a `-' character to
> > the offending line in the Makefile?
> 
> I put a `-' in front of "clean :" in makefile.dj2 and in 
> /src/makefile.dj2 (the first rule here deals with this "if exist del 
> bgi\*.o") with the following result:

No, that's not what I meant.  You need to prepend `-' to the
_command_ that this rule runs, like this:

 clean:
	-if exist bgi\*.o del bgi\*.o

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