[pups] 2.11 BSD compilation fails

Richard Donkin rdonkin at bigfoot.com
Wed Jan 31 09:33:02 AEST 2001


Mark Green wrote:
> 
> >
> > While tinkering with the date2.c program posted earlier by Alex
> > Chupakhin, which now runs on 2.11 BSD btw, I discovered the following:
> >
> > - 'cc -o date2 date2.c' works fine, producing a 12K binary
> >
> > - a makefile containing this command fails - the compilation starts but
> > fails silently, producing a 2K binary that is not marked executable.
> > The makefile is:
> >
> >    date2: date2.c
> >            cc -o date2 -c date2.c
> Remove the -c flag, it tells the compiler to only compile the program
> and not produce an executable.

Ooops... I must have been up too late when I came up with that one.  

Thanks

Richard

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