Re: How to build the regex datablade

On 23 Dec 2005 04:26:53 -0800, malc_p@btinternet.com <malc_p@btinternet.com> wrote: > Ok - first hurdle: > Make for morons? (not allowed to say "make for dummies" or I'll get > sued. Oh gosh darn I just did. Shucks). > Can anyone explain what > "Make: Cannot read or get ." - that's a full stop/period at the end - > means and how I get past it? Is this a serious question? When I first looked at it, I dismissed it as babble such as is endemic on c.d.i , but as I was about to delete it permanently, I re-read it and I suspect there is a serious question lurking in here - as evidenced by the change in subject. So, your situation is: * I managed somehow to download the regex datablade onto XYZ platform * Now I'm trying to build it for IDS version PQR using C compiler ABC version DEF. * Unfortunately, make says "Make: Cannot read or get .". * What the heck does this mean? I've not looked at the makefile, but the most likely problem seems to me to be a line that says 'include $(SOMEMACRONAME)' but it turns out that SOMEMACRONAME is not defined. Depending on what the comments in the makefile say, and on what the spelling of the macro name actually is, we can then deduce what you need to do. The message from 'make' is trying to indicate that it cannot read a nameless file (or maybe the file whose name is the empty string), and it cannot 'get' it from SCCS either. You'd get a similar error if you tried 'make -f non-existent.mk' except that the file name would appear in the message, making it easier to understand. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/