[MITgcm-devel] make depend on sun (o:

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:04 +0100, Martin Losch wrote: 
> Hi Ed,
> I checked in the changes to the sunos_sun4u_* build option files, so 
> that they work for me now.

Excellent!


> Now I have to specify the cyrus-imapd-makedepend/makedepend in the 
> build options file to make sure that the system wide default is not 
> used (which may be available on Sun, usually in /usr/openwin/bin, but 
> doesn't work).

OK, thats slightly inconvenient but then its not our fault that Sun's
makedepend is unusable for our purposes.  ;-)


> I suggest, that someone who can try the darwin_xlf optfile (I don't 
> have the XLF compile), tries if we can do without xmakedepend. If 
> that's the case xmakedepend is not necessary at all (what I suspect 
> will be the case).
> xmakedepend is currently broken (the if statement at the beginning of 
> the file is not doing, what it is supposed to do, on Sun the cpp 
> compiler should ALWAYS be /lib/cpp in order to work, but only for 
> xmakedepend). What should we do about it?

I think there are some other systems out there (old Alphas?) that rely
on xmakedepend.  Since its not a priority, I'll work on the xmakedepend
bugs the next time we encounter one of those machines.  And if we don't
use it for a year, then maybe its just time to remove it.

Is that OK for you?

Ed

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