Re: [Quilt-dev] Compile Error on RHEL 3

[Josh Boyer]

> I was trying to help a co-worker install quilt on his machine and it
> failed do compile.  The failure seemed to be because of the
> COMPAT_SYMLINK stuff that was added in 0.43/0.44.  I'll try and get the
> exact build failure later today, but has anyone had troubles compiling
> quilt on older distros?  Quilt 0.42 compiled just fine.

Here's the build error.  The compat stuff confuses me at the moment, so I
haven't really gotten anywhere with debugging this yet.

quilt/scripts/inspect.in -> quilt/scripts/inspect
quilt/scripts/dependency-graph.in -> quilt/scripts/dependency-graph
gcc -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386
-mcpu=i686 -Wall -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"quilt\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"quilt\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.44\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"quilt\ 0.44\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"address@hidden" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1
-DHAVE_FCHMOD=1 -DHAVE_CHMOD=1 -DHAVE_MKSTEMP=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1
-DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_STRCHR=1 -DHAVE_STRRCHR=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1
-DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1
-DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DLSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK=1   
lib/backup-files.c   -o lib/backup-files
bin/patch-wrapper.in -> bin/patch-wrapper
make: *** No rule to make target `compat/awk', needed by `compat'.  Stop.


josh