[Cluster-devel] Re: Problems with recent Makefile changes

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>]

Robert Peterson wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> I did find a couple problems with your new changes to the Makefiles
> for cluster suite.  The first problem is that the gfs2 userland tools
> don't have a dependency set for ../libgfs2/libgfs2.a. 
> So if you
> change a function in libgfs2 and recompile, the userland tools never
> know to link in the modified libgfs2.a library.

Yes, this was/is in the TODO list from my first email. Each subproject requires
to have explicit dependencies. It's a really long monkey job but i will get to it.

> The second problem I ran into yesterday.  Basically, I compiled a 
> gfs2 userland tool and got a compiler error.  I fixed the error
> and replaced the file.  However, my second compile--which should have
> been successful--failed with some odd error message.  After I did 
> "make clean" and "make" again, it worked.  I should have gotten more 
> info at the time, but unfortunately, I didn't because I was in a hurry.  
> If I run across this again, I'll try to get more information about
> what's happening.

It would be lovely if you could show me the full error next time it happens
and if you have a way to reproduce it.

Thanks
Fabio

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