Re: [Chicken-users] Is darcs-head CMake build broken?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Ian Oversby wrote:
> > It could also be I'm using darcs incorrectly?  I did darcs pull -a 
> > :-/  When building it failed with the following error.  This is the 
> > MinGW / MSYS build.
> >
> > Building C object CMakeFiles/chicken-static.dir/optimizer.obj
> > Building C object CMakeFiles/chicken-static.dir/support.obj
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `libchicken.a', needed by 
> > `chicken-static.exe'.  Stop.
> > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/chicken-static.dir/all] Error 2
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Drat.  I have this error too.  I didn't test MinGW, as Cygwin lulled 
> me into a sense of complacency.  It appears that CMake naming bugs 
> haven't gone away even as of 2.4.3, and I thought this was over in 
> 2.4-beta.  This is the original reason I had libchicken-static.a.  
> Back to the drawing board.

I have verified that it is a CMake bug or misfeature, on both Cygwin and 
MinGW.  Static and dynamic libraries can each be built separately, but 
they can't coexist and clobber each other.  We'll see what the CMake 
folks suggest.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every