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linux Makefile syntax for blank lines in screen output

i have this makefile: It results the below output: what i am looking to do is create a space between “prompt> make” and the first happening of gfortran. and ideally i would like the output on the screen to first print out the contents of my COMPILER_VERSION variable before the first gfortran ha…

Maikefile error make: *** [prepare] Error 127

I get the following error form the Makefile: Error: What am I doing wrong? Answer your subshell command git describe –abbrev=0 –tags is executed an returns the string “v1.1.2”. Make then tries to execute it as a program. should work

bsd-finger won’t Make correctly

I ran across an interesting issue. My system is Arch Linux (latest) on an ASUS laptop. Now, the really weird issue: finger is not automatically installed with Arch. I attempted to use pacman to install it, and it’s not in the repositories. It IS in the AUR. I downloaded the AUR file, un-tarred the tar w…

Compiling simple C++ projects using make [closed]

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How to recompile an existing linux application

I am looking to edit and recompile the hcitool.c of bluez version 5.31. I installed the bluez 5.31 by following the procedure from the answer of this: Bluetooth Low Energy in C – using Bluez to create a GATT server In my trial, I duplicated the hcitool.c file and named it as myhcitool.c inside the tools…

How to remove a broken installation of glibc

I just attempted to install glibc version 2.19 to my computer as follows: 1) I cloned the glibc git repo with 2) I checked out version 2.19 with 3) I made a directory objdir in my home directory, and built the installation there with 4) I tested the make with This gave me an error, but some webpage I found

Link a C++ library: Restbed

I just downloaded the restbed library: https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed. I have trouble using it.. In fact, I don’t know where to put this library.. (I have Linux Mint 17.2).. I’m pretty sure that I’m doing something using because when I use #include <restbed>, the make command say…