Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile latest version under Windows

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:23:55PM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote
> On Wed 27 Nov 2002 (08:39 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> > 
> > err, br1.c should not be in CVS... Empty version? I'm a bit confused...
> 
> No, it's not under CVS, that was my mistake (I carelessly looked at
> br1.c, saw the $Id line but didn't look at it carefully and assumed
> I'd got it from CVS). What was actually happening was:
> 
> make was running and got to the step where it runs 
>   ./makebearoff -o 6 -s 7999999 | ./makebearoff1 -o br1.c
> 
> But makebearoff.c had a couple of erroneous single quotes in the
> printfs, so it core dumped. makebearoff1 therefor received no data
> from makebearoff, so it built a C file with
> 
> static unsigned char acBearoff1[] = { 
> };
> 
> since makebearoff1 ran to completion without errors, the make
> continued. 

OK, that makes sense.

It's probably better to use a temp file isntead:

@rm -f temp.bd
makebearoff -o -s 7999999 > temp.bd
makebearoff1 -o br1.c
rm -f temp.bd

Jørn