[Tack-devel] Solaris, make, and lint

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Sorry about the lack of updates or progress information --- I've had a majo=
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attack of builders, and as a result am spending most of my time in a state =
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acute exhaustion. My creative juices are pretty much nil right now. (Bet=20
that's more than you wanted to know.)

However, I have had time to have a brief play with getting the ACK to build=
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Sparc Solaris, using one of SourceForge's compile farm machines. And there'=
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something really weird going on.

Whenever I try to run the makefiles, the compilation fails because it tried=
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run lint (the lintlib target for util/data, in fact), and SF's machine does=
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not have lint installed. That seems fair enough.

However, my home machine doesn't have lint installed either, and it works f=
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there. I tried to do some digging to find out where the lintlib target was=
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being invoked, and came up blank. In fact, the word 'lintlib' appears=20
*nowhere* in the entire codebase unless it's followed by a colon.

I managed to prevent it from trying to run lint by preventing the ACK from=
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defining the LINT make variable, but I don't know why this works.

My question is: does Solaris make have some strange feature where it'll=20
automatically try to run lint if it thinks it's available?

(Does anyone use lint these days?)

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"Curses! Foiled by the chilled dairy treats of righteousness!" --- Earthwor=
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Jim (evil)