[Coco] building lwtools as user on RPi

[Bob Devries]

Hi William,

Per your suggestion, I removed lwtools, and pulled a new copy, and built 
that. This time it built correctly. I have not changed anything in the 
installation. Go figure.

Now to see if toolshed will build

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Astle" <lost at l-w.ca>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] building lwtools as user on RPi


> On 2013-07-19 01:48, Bob Devries wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried again to build lwtools on Rpi as a user (not root).
>>
>> Here's the make output:
>>
>> Building dependencies for ...
>> Building ...
>> .
>> .
>> [multiple lwtools files identically addressed...]
>> .
>> .
>> Building dependencies for lwlib/lw_cmdline.o
>> Building lwlib/lw_cmdline.o
>> Linking /lwlib/liblw.a
>> Linking /lwasm/lwasm
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llw
>> Collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make: *** [lwasm/lwasm] error 1
>>
>> Comments?
>
> This means you have a broken compiler or linker or you've done something 
> bizarre.
>
> Is there a file lwlib/liblw.a present? If not, then you also have a broken 
> make program because it should have bailed out if a prerequisite for a 
> target failed to build.
>
> I would strongly recommend you remove the lwtools source tree completely 
> and start again fresh. DO NOT do any step of the build as root. DO NOT use 
> sudo for any step of the build. The only step that needs root access is 
> installing to /usr/local/bin/ and you can skip that step and manually copy 
> the binaries wherever you want them.
>
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