Arg! (Makefile.pre.in)

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> writes:

> Magnus,
>   Perhaps you could tell us exactly the commands you entered and what
> Setup.in looked like?

Sure. I tried a lot of variants, but here is one:

Setup.in contains:

*shared*
spam spamodule.c

The commands are (for instance) as follows:

make -f Makefile.pre.in boot

(This seems to work)

Now I run make:

make: *** No rule to make target `spamodule.c', needed by `spamodule.o'.  Stop

Note: This is a set of conditions/errors I haven't encountered
before... It all seems rather stochastic ;)

Browsing the Makefile.pre.in it seems that it has the wrong value for,
among other things, the installdir. So, I try:

make -f Makefile.pre.in Makefile VERSION=1.5 installdir=/some/python/install/directory

When I run make, I get the same error as before. (Hm. Strange - the
last time I did this, make complained about the non-existent target
"default").

If I try

make spammodule

I get all kinds of errors about undefined symbols (suggesting some
linking problem):

gcc -g -O2 -I/store/include/python1.5 -I/store/include/python1.5
 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    spammodule.c   -o spammodule
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
Py_InitModule4                      /var/tmp/cczDaaxu1.o
Py_BuildValue                       /var/tmp/cczDaaxu1.o
PyArg_ParseTuple                    /var/tmp/cczDaaxu1.o
main                                /store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2/2.8.1/crt1.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to spammodule

I *do* include Python.h...

>  That would help a lot.

Well - it is always difficult to provide information when one has no
clue as to what the problem might be, as one does not know what is
relevant...

>   Also, are you sure you're using Misc/Makefile.pre.in, not
> ./Makefile.pre.in, from the source distribution?

Yes... There is no ./Makefile.pre.in that I can see... :)

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