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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: GNU Make 3.58 on HP-UX 7.0 ?
Message-ID: <7370211@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 18:16:51 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.201337.15659@bpdsun1.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>  LOADLIBES=-lPW  wrong - libPW should be avoided like the plague

I'm not familiar with GNU Make, so I don't know why this dependency was
specified, but...

There are some routines in libPW.a that are not defined anywhere else in HP-UX.
You may have no choice but to use that library, if you get unresolved externals
without it.  Also, the behavior of some standard C library routines is subtly
different if you use the libPW version; GNU make may depend on it.

>Another plague to avoid is CFLAGS = -O. Use CFLAGS = +O1 after you have
>checked that the program goes. The -O option only exists so the folks
>at HP can make slow core dumps  :-)

I'm sorry you feel that way.  We do our best to fix all bugs that are reported
against the optimizer.  There are very few in 7.0 on the Series 300.  We can't
fix them if people avoid using the optimizer rather than submit bug reports,
though.

>> PS: Why don't HP9000s have the dbx debugger?
>
>NIH.

Correct.  Debuggers are non-standard; some of us happen to like xdb better.
The biggest argument in favor of dbx is that some poeple may have become
accustomed to its syntax.  dbx does not have as full a feature set as does xdb,
and I for one tend to use xdb's extra feautres a lot.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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