>
My intention was to let
you have the exact source which I am using
A laudable intention.
> (as I
don't have the actual web link where the same copy of tar is available)
(Google
found that link for me in seconds.)
> I will
be more careful in my future correspondence.
Thanks.
>
a. change directory to lmbench/src
> b. execute $make results
Good. (You might think that was obvious but it's good to be sure.)
>
It seems to me that
Make utility is not interpreting it properly and thus giving the
error: command not found.
No, when
make says "command not found", it means that it's failed to find a
command in a rule, not a target (a "label"). Make could probably do us a favor by
reporting which line of which makefile caused it to
produce the error.
I don't
think the "get: command not found" errors are important. The lmbench makefiles are trying to get the source code out of a
revision control system. All the
source code should already be available in your unpacked tar file. So lmbench
shouldn't need to do this and it shouldn't matter that it fails. Indeed, the makefiles seem to carefully
ignore these errors. This error,
however, is the one that's stopped it:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `bw_file_rd.c',
needed by `../bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bw_file_rd'. Stop.
Normally,
concentrating on the first error is the right thing to do, so this is an
exception.
> I am
not sure whether the file src/bw_file_read.c is a part of linux core OR should
be found within the lmbench source tree
It's
in your tar file. Is it still in
the directory tree that you unpacked?
Please check carefully. If
that doesn't show you where the problem is, please send me the whole output of
make. Please don't copy bug-make -
there's no indication of a make bug here (at least not yet) - but you were
polite, so I'll try to help you anyway.
-------------------------------------
Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering
From: irfan [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 13:57
To: Martin Dorey; address@hidden
Cc: Dr. K. Salah; Khalid A. El-Badawi
Subject: Re: Errors while Recompiling lmbench: With Make
Many thanks
for your reply. I apologize for sending the big size attachment as I didn't
realize that the address: address@hidden addresses
a mailing list. I found it in the versioning message for make utility (using
$make --version). My intention was to let you have the exact source which
I am using (as I don't have the actual web link where the same copy of tar is
available). Any how, I will be more careful in my future correspondence.
I am
replying to your concerns in the text below:
1. I got
the error while attempting the compilation of lambench.tar source as per the
directions given in its README. These are as follows.
a.
change directory to lmbench/src
2. I
consider it as an error in Make utility because of the following error
messages:
make[1]:
get: Command not found
make[1]: *** [get] Error 127
get seems
to be a label in the Make file (see the lines below copied from the Makefile -
zipped inside the tar).
get:
for i in doc src results scripts; do \
echo ===== $$i =====; \
(cd $$i && bk get
-q); \
done
@co -q
It seems
to me that Make utility is not interpreting it properly and thus
giving the error: command not found.
3. As a
matter of fact, I am attempting this compilation as the first step after
installing the operating system. Thus there is no chance that some file had
been deleted unintentionally. In addition, the same source (tar file) can
easily be compiled on another installation (Fedora Core 5) thus implying the
existence of all the required code files inside the tar. [I am not sure whether
the file src/bw_file_read.c is a part of linux core OR
should be found within the lmbench source tree]
I hope the
situation is now much clearer to you.
-----
Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:07
PM
Subject: RE: Errors while Recompiling
lmbench: With Make
What
exactly did you type to provoke this error? Why do you think it demonstrates a bug
in make? From the information
you've given, it just looks like you've erroneously deleted src/bw_file_read.c.
(2MiB
is a large attachment to send unsolicited to a mailing list. Posting a link to, say, http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lmbench/lmbench-3.0-a7.tgz?download
would have been nicer.)
-------------------------------------
Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of irfan
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:46
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden; Dr. K. Salah; Khalid A. El-Badawi
Subject: Errors while Recompiling lmbench: With Make
I am trying
to compile the attached source with the following specs.
Hardware:
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz, 1.00GB of RAM (i386)
Kernel:
2.4.22.2115.nptl on i386 (Fedor Core Release 1)
Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu
The errors
and output messages I am getting are attached as text files with this email.
Your help
and support regarding the concern will be highly appreciated.
King Fahd University, Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia.