[mercury-users] Newbie questions

[John Eikenberry]

Fergus Henderson wrote:

> On 11-Dec-2000, John Eikenberry <jae at zhar.net> wrote:
> > Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > > To install the Posix library, do the following:
> > > 
> > > 	cd extras/posix
> > > 	mmake libposix.depend
> > 
> > This worked but it caused an error:
> > 
> > $ mmake libposix.depend
> > mmc --generate-dependencies     libposix
> > Error: can't read source file for module `libposix'.
> > For more information, try recompiling with `-E'.
> > make: *** [libposix.depend] Error 1
> 
> Sorry, I should have said `mmake posix.depend'
> rather than `mmake libposix.depend'.

You might want to make this more explicit in the User Guide. The section on
building libraries you pointed me to would seem to suggest that you use
'mmake libposix.depend'.

-- 

John Eikenberry
[jae at zhar.net - http://zhar.net]
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