[Coin-discuss] Installation problem

[Lou Hafer]

Christian,

	You don't specify which Coin project you're trying to build. Cbc?
	
	I tried downloading Cbc and building on SuSE Linux and Solaris, and I
can't duplicate the error. Looking at the output you supply, the problem seems
to be here:

make[2]: Entering directory 'root/Desktop/Coin/Cbc/CoinUtils/scr'

The proper directory is root/Desktop/Coin/Cbc/CoinUtils/src. Can you try an
update and see if the problem persists?

	But I'm puzzled by much of the output you present --- there are lots
of little anomalies. WarmStartDual, for instance --- should be 
CoinWarmStartDual. If an update does not resolve the problem, I'll need some
additional information about the system you're using. The config.log file
would be helpful.

	To answer the second part of your question:  Make works on the basis of
dependencies.  One of those is #include files.  If a file included by a source
file changes, the source file must be recompiled.  In the autotools framework,
auxilliary files are built to record these dependencies.  These files have the
suffix .Plo and are kept in a hidden directory, .deps.  All of this should be
created automatically during the build. Along the same lines, but more complex,
is the business of creating libraries. This is tricky across multiple platforms
and intermediate files are kept in hidden directories called .libs.

							Lou