Bug 691301

Summary:	"make -f base/unix-gcc.mak" no longer works
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	Build Process	Assignee:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	master
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2010-05-14 03:05:02 UTC

Starting with 8.72 the command "make -f base/unix-gcc.mak" no longer produces a bin/gs file, instead producing the error:

make: *** No rule to make target `obj/libtiff_.dev', needed by `obj/libtiff.dev'.  Stop.

We need to provide a base/libtiff.mak in the same way that we provide base/libpng.mak, base/jpeg.mak, base/jbig2.mak, etc.

Comment 1 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2010-05-14 03:23:58 UTC

It turns out that there is a base/libtiff.mak in 8.71 but it doesn't work and in head (r11236) make -f base/unix-gcc.mak fails with:

make: *** No rule to make target `obj/fapif.dev', needed by `obj/fapi.dev'.  Stop.

Comment 2 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-05-14 05:36:17 UTC

See also bug 691264 - I changed the documentation to recommended people not to do that, because it no-longer works. If you feel it should work that way, feel free to make it work that way (and possibly also revert the change in the documentation).

Comment 3 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2010-05-14 16:46:21 UTC

Fixed in r11241.