[Cluster-devel] Re: Problems with recent Makefile changes
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
fabbione at ubuntu.com
Wed May 2 13:59:31 UTC 2007
Robert Peterson wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
>
> I did find a couple problems with your new changes to the Makefiles
> for cluster suite. The first problem is that the gfs2 userland tools
> don't have a dependency set for ../libgfs2/libgfs2.a.
> So if you
> change a function in libgfs2 and recompile, the userland tools never
> know to link in the modified libgfs2.a library.
Yes, this was/is in the TODO list from my first email. Each subproject requires
to have explicit dependencies. It's a really long monkey job but i will get to it.
> The second problem I ran into yesterday. Basically, I compiled a
> gfs2 userland tool and got a compiler error. I fixed the error
> and replaced the file. However, my second compile--which should have
> been successful--failed with some odd error message. After I did
> "make clean" and "make" again, it worked. I should have gotten more
> info at the time, but unfortunately, I didn't because I was in a hurry.
> If I run across this again, I'll try to get more information about
> what's happening.
It would be lovely if you could show me the full error next time it happens
and if you have a way to reproduce it.
Thanks
Fabio
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