Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC-BDI is not my friend....

>On Saturday 13 September 2003 2:49 pm, Vince Negrete wrote:
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>>Can you answer something for me? When you compile from that kind of source
>>(XFree86) do you use 'gcc' or 'perl' ?
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>Perl is an interpreter like bash, or tcl - 'gcc' is one of the tools used to
>produce an executable binary.
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>>I know that is a back to basics question but if I stumble upon a source
>>generally I'm not sure how to compile it....
>>Maybe I should just stick with the BDI's...
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In general, you do not directly give compile commands to compile a large
package. There is a very sophisticated command language that is part of the
make utility. The Makefile gives instructions to make to figure out
which files need to be compiled, or linked, due to changes in the source,
or follows directives to remove all derived files (ie. object, executable
and libraries) and remake them from scratch. There is another tool called
configure, that figures out where libraries are stored on your machine,
what compiler to use in what circumstances, what order include files and
libraries should be used in, and so on. It is an attempt to make
compilation
and linking adapt to the various versions of Unix, Linux and other posix-
compliant system environments.

When I am compiling any package that consists of more than about 3
C source files, I create a make file for it, and let make do the work.

Jon