[mgp-users 1475] new mgp unable to compile

[Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp>]

Dear mgp\'ers,

Sorry for my poor debugging skills, but I cannot get latest snapshot to compile
on either AMD64 (Ubuntu 6.10) or i386 (Debian unstable) architecture.

Since I cannot find the archives of the Mailing List, I post my attempt below.

I downloaded snapshot, uncompress to separate directory, read README files,
and then attempted compile.

Default type of simple testing as follows:

% ./configure         ! no discernible error
(snipped all output)
be sure to generate Makefile from Imakefile, by xmkmf and make Makefiles

% xmkmf               ! seems ok
imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/lib/X11/config

% make Makefiles      ! no complaints
making Makefiles in image...
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/image\'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles\'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/image\'
making Makefiles in sample...
        mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/sample\'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles\'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/sample\'
making Makefiles in contrib...
        mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit\'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib\'
making Makefiles in contrib/xwintoppm...
        mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib\'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib\'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib/xwintoppm\'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles\'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib/xwintoppm\'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gernot/Desktop/mgp/kit/contrib\'

% make                ! gcc complains: no input files
                      ! make complains: *** [mgp.o] Error 1
rm -f mgp.o
gcc -c -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing         -Dlinux -D__amd64__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L                 -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE                          -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE                                 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64                                                      -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO      -DPACKAGE_NAME=\\\"\\\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\\\"\\\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\\\"\\\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\\\"\\\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\\\"\\\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_FILE_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDARG_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 -DHAVE_LOCALE_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_POLL=1 -DHAVE_STRSTR=1 -DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DHAVE_STRSEP=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE!
 _MKSTEMP=1 -DHAVE_SNPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_MEMCMP=1  -DMGPLIBDIR=\\\"/usr/lib/X11/mgp\\\" -DUUDECODE=\\\"/usr/bin/uudecode\\\" -DGUNZIP=\\\"/bin/gunzip\\\" -I mgp.c
gcc: no input files
make: *** [mgp.o] Error 1

I know gcc  manages to compile ctlwords, since with some configure options it
gives a warning about imncompatible implicit declaration of built-in function \'exit\'.

Also, argument string to gc for mgp.c is very long so perhaps there is a syntax error?

I tried also with 10 earlier snapshots. All give same error. I checked my path
to ensure that \".\" is in the path. So I assume the problem is really simple to
solve!

Any comments welcome, 
     Gernot



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