Re: Solaris - error with path's

[Brad Garcia]

Cons purposefully does not inherit the shell's environment variables.  In 
particular, you either need to give cons the entire pathname to your 
compiler, or you need to set PATH in your cons environment in the 
Construct file.  I believe you should see this in one of the first few 
examples in the documentation.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, F. Schoenahl wrote:

> Dear all, thanks for Cons, 
> 
> i like using it in my projects. I even intend
> to translate the documentation into French in order to get a better
> undestanding of its subtleties. 
> 
> I use it without problems on Slackware Linux (MD5 already packed with
> perl), on numerous projects. I tried to reuse a Construct on Solaris 9 -
> after compilation of Diget_MD5_2.30 from CPAN, I get the following error when 
> attempting to run 
> Cons in a small project : 
> 
> $cons voronoi 
> cc -g3 -c edgelist.c -o edgelist.o
> cons: failed to execute "cc" (No such file or directory). Is this an 
> executable on path "/bin:/usr/bin"?
> cons: *** [edgelist.o] Error 2
> cons: errors constructing edgelist.o
> 
> $echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/X/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/ccs/bin
> 
> $which cc
> /usr/local/bin/cc
> 
> My Construct looks like that :
> 
> # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> $vor = new cons(
>         CC => 'cc',
>         CFLAGS => '-g3',
>         LDFLAGS => '-lm'
> );
>  
> Program $vor 'voronoi', 'edgelist.o', 'geometry.o', 'heap.o', 'main.o', 
> 'memory.o', 'output.o', 'voronoi.o';
>  
> Objects $vor 'edgelist.c', 'geometry.c', 'heap.c', 'main.c', 'memory.c', 
> 'output.c', 'voronoi.c';
> 
> #<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> from: 
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/sjf/voronoi.tar
> 
> You may have noticed that I am not a perl expert...
> Thanks for your help, 
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
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-- 
Brad Garcia