I'm trying to build the FOX Library (http://www.fox-toolkit.org) with Digital Mars compiler.

In fact, FOX has a smakefile for it. The contents of it call recursivelly other smakefiles in other directories:

-----------8<------------
#
#  Top-level makefile for Digital Mars C++
#

all:
	cd ..\..\utils
	smake -fMakefile.dmc
	cd ..\..\src
	smake -fMakefile.dmc
	cd ..\..\tests
	smake -fMakefile.dmc
	cd ..\..\adie
	smake -fMakefile.dmc
	cd ..\..\pathfinder
	smake -fMakefile.dmc
	cd ..\..\calculator
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

clean:
	cd ..\..\src
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean
	cd ..\..\utils
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean
	cd ..\..\tests
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean
	cd ..\..\adie
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean
	cd ..\..\pathfinder
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean
	cd ..\..\calculator
	smake -fMakefile.dmc clean

----------->8------------

However, when I call in the directory that contains the above file, I get only the following in the screen, and nothing is compiled:

-----------8<------------
SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\utils
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\src
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\tests
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\adie
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\pathfinder
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

	cd ..\..\calculator
	smake -fMakefile.dmc

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved
----------->8------------

Any Ideas?

My machine is a Windows XP Home Ed. SP1 applied.

TIA

--
Cesar Rabak

Cesar Rabak <crabak@acm.org> wrote in news:408E8646.7080303@acm.org:
> I'm trying to build the FOX Library (http://www.fox-toolkit.org) with Digital Mars compiler.
> 
> In fact, FOX has a smakefile for it. The contents of it call recursivelly other smakefiles in other directories:
> 
> (...)
> 
> However, when I call in the directory that contains the above file, I get only the following in the screen, and nothing is compiled:
> 
> (...)

I have similar fresh observation except it crashes here (NT4 on P2). I wonder if runing it in new instance of cmd shell could help. Please report if you would find any solution.

ABX

The dm libraries are built with recursive smakes, as in \dm\src\build\snd.mak.

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in news:c6mb8o$2k17$3@digitaldaemon.com:

> The dm libraries are built with recursive smakes, as in \dm\src\build\snd.mak.

I noticed recursive makefiles on CD so I was sure it was/is possible but which OS do you use? Recursive smake fails here on NT4 and on XP.

ABX

"W³odzimierz Skiba" <abx@abx.art.pl> wrote in message news:c6mcig$2lm7$2@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in news:c6mb8o$2k17$3@digitaldaemon.com:
>
> > The dm libraries are built with recursive smakes, as in \dm\src\build\snd.mak.
>
> I noticed recursive makefiles on CD so I was sure it was/is possible but which OS do you use? Recursive smake fails here on NT4 and on XP.

I'm using XP now, though those makefiles also worked on my old NT4 box.

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in news:c6mmkl$725$2@digitaldaemon.com:
> I'm using XP now, though those makefiles also worked on my old NT4 box.

I found the problem which cause crash here.

I have something like:

# START

MAKEARGS = "CC=$(CC)" "CXX=$(CXX)" "CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)" \
    	"CXXFLAGS=$(CXXFLAGS)" "CPPFLAGS=$(CPPFLAGS)" "LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS)" \
    	"SHARED=$(SHARED)" "WXUNIV=$(WXUNIV)" \
    	"UNICODE=$(UNICODE)" \
    	"BUILD=$(BUILD)"

all :  cube_sample

cube_sample :
	cd cube
	smake /NOLOGO /F makefile.dms $(MAKEARGS) all
	cd ..

# END

and above makefile cause crash. Doing the same with single but long line for defining MAKEARGS removes such crash.

ABX

Thanks, I'll add it to the smake bug list. -Walter

"W³odzimierz Skiba" <abx@abx.art.pl> wrote in message news:c6opbs$mng$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I found the problem which cause crash here.