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AHA, typical dumb makefile and I forgot to grep :)

That makefile is really really unreadable (someone should indent it, rewrite it)

I shouldn't need to know anything about this :) The GCC_4XX way should be automatic one way or another, something like 

.IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "GCC"
    GCC_VERSION *= $(shell gcc -dumpversion)
    GCC_MAJOR_VERSION *= $(GCC_VERSION:b:b)
    .IF  "$(GCC_MAJOR_VERSION)" == "4"
        GCC_4XX *= define
    .ENDIF
.ENDIF

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Or my way (untested) 
.IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "GCC"
    GCC_VERSION *= $(shell gcc -dumpversion)
    GCC_MAJOR_VERSION *= $(GCC_VERSION:b:b)
    .IF  "$(GCC_MAJOR_VERSION)" == "4"
        CFLAGS +=-static-libgcc
        LIBC   += -static-libgcc 
    .ENDIF
.ENDIF

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Checking my make commands, a test makefile.mk 
CCTYPE        *= GCC
.IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "GCC"
    GCC_VERSION *= $(shell gcc -dumpversion)
    GCC_MAJOR_VERSION *= $(GCC_VERSION:b:b)
    .IF  "$(GCC_MAJOR_VERSION)" == "4"
    CFLAGS        += -static-libgcc 
    LIBC        += -static-libgcc 
    GCC_4XX        *= define
    .ENDIF
.ENDIF

__echo_GCC:
    @echo GCC_VERSION   $(GCC_VERSION)
    @echo GCC_MAJOR_VERSION   $(GCC_MAJOR_VERSION)
    @echo GCC_4XX  $(GCC_4XX)
    @echo CFLAGS  $(CFLAGS)
    @echo LIBC  $(LIBC)
    $(NOOP)

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how it runs (output) 
$ dmake -f makefile.mk
dmake: Executing shell macro: gcc -dumpversion
dmake: Executing shell macro: gcc -dumpversion
GCC_VERSION   4.5.2
dmake: Executing shell macro: gcc -dumpversion
GCC_MAJOR_VERSION   4
GCC_4XX  define
CFLAGS  -static-libgcc
LIBC  -static-libgcc

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Not sure how that fits in with your method of building. I've only ever built perl with gcc by running dmake -f makefile.mk

Yup, thats what I do, the -f makefile.mk isn't mandatory since that is the default

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Re^4: perl 5.14.0-RC1 is available for testing!
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 24, 2011 at 12:43 UTC
    You know, I wrote a little program to use objdump to find out what dlls are linked to perl.exe/perl514.dll , to copy them to t directory

    I tested it, it worked, and then I dawned me how stupid I find this :)

    The whole thing should be replaced with 

    .IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "GCC"
    $(XCOPY) $(CCHOME)\bin\* ..\t\$(NULL)
.ENDIF

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    Since the dll's in ..\t\ aren't used for anything else and they're deleted during dmake clean

    KISS

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Re^4: perl 5.14.0-RC1 is available for testing!
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 24, 2011 at 16:29 UTC 
    .IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "GCC"
    GCC_VERSION *= $(shell gcc -dumpversion)
    GCC_MAJOR_VERSION *= $(GCC_VERSION:b:b)
    .IF  "$(GCC_MAJOR_VERSION)" == "4"
        GCC_4XX *= define
    .ENDIF
.ENDIF

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     If that works, it would be an improvement.
    One problem with it is that it's not guaranteed that the C compiler is called 'gcc'. With the mingw64 compiler that I use it's called 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc' - and  gcc -dumpversion would simply return something like 'gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

    I guess, however, there might also be a way to cater for that possibility.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      FWIW the actual compiler name is supposed to be in $(CC), CCTYPE is configuration variable
      Read more... ack \bCC\b makefile.mk (680 Bytes)
      I now prefer this.
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        I now prefer this

        Could that be modified so that only the dll files get copied ? And would that work just as well ? (Or have I missed something ? I'll give it a try myself when I get a chance.)

        Copying the entire bin directory seems a bit heavy-handed to me.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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