[sword-devel] Build problems with CVS

Jerry Kreps sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:14:20 -0600


On Sunday 06 January 2002 13:34, Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I have the same kind of box.  I could'n't compile the CVS either
> > until Chris suggested that I go to several of the subdirectories
> > and do a manual 'make clean' in them.  Then I could compile. 
> > But, the libsword.a file is 19.3MB, not 1.6MB as the binary
> > package installed. Haven't figured out why, yet.
> > JLK
>
> I had to do the same. But since 1.5.2 compiles fine there has to be
> a problem with the Makefiles.
>
> My idea is that my box is too fast for the Makefiles. Don't laugh,
> with a slower PC the same CVS compiled fine!
>
> Joachim

I turned off the debug flag, turned shared on, did a make clean in 
all directorys and then redid 'make'.    The compile proceeded nicely 
and I ended up with libsword.a and libsword.so in the /libs directory.

I'll try it again and see if it is reproducible.
JLK