Compiling euchre 0.7 n cygwin

Thu Jul 20 18:10:00 GMT 2006

Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Buster wrote:
>> This is not a Cygwin-specific problem. In
>> euchre-0.7/src/gui/Makefile.am, @GTK_LIBS@ should come at the end of
>> the list of libraries to link, instead of at the beginning. Further
>> questions (for example, about why 'make install' fails while trying to
>> invoke automake -- sorry, it's beyond me) should be directed to the
>> package maintainer.
>> Excellent! Changing the order of the libs fixed the problem.
>> I ended up having to change it directly in the Makefile instead of
> Makefile.am (I probably could've done it in Makefile.in also).
>> The reason I thought it was a Cygwin issue is that the same code
> compiles fine on Linux (except for a minor ifstream issue).

Right... Linux is forgiving about link order. Most platforms aren't.
-- 
Matthew
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