[Radiance-general] librtrad.a

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Rob,

You're not the first to make the mistake of using Windows in a  
misguided attempt to get some work done...

End of line in Unix is "line-feed" (hex 0A), "carriage-return" (hex  
0D) in pre-X MacOS, and carriage-return followed by line-feed in  
Windows (inherited from DOS, inherited from CP/M).  This has caused  
more headaches over the years than just about all the other divergent  
standards combined, including the '/' '\' stupidity between DOS/VAX  
and Unix.

-Greg

> From: Rob Guglielmetti <rpg at rumblestrip.org>
> Date: October 26, 2006 4:13:49 PM PDT
>
> Gregory J. Ward wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> This is really peculiar, and I don't know how it got in there, but  
>> the backslash on a line by itself should actually be on the line  
>> just above it.  Somehow, the name of LIBDIR got mangled or got a  
>> line-feed or carriage-return stuck in there.  Just take it out,  
>> and try running "rmake install" in the src/common directory again  
>> to see if that fixes it.
>
> Well then I got a bunch of "no rule to make target" errors.  Hmmm.   
> I started over, and it wanted to make another botched rmake  
> script.  This time I corrected the script before makeall ran, and  
> it worked, but I still got a couple of "no rule" errors.  I think  
> the problem is that I unpacked the source archive using a Windows  
> utility (sorry).  I will try this all over again from the shell.
> (tried)
>
> Yeah, I'm an idiot.  Once I unpacked the source from Linux, and re- 
> issued makeall install, it worked as advertised.  Imagine that!   
> Thanks Greg, sorry for the trouble.
> - Rob