Programming

What I have done is to try to clean up my src location by moving some files into sub-folders. The files I moved don't get changed very often, and when I port to linux, it helps some to only have to deal with files that have been changed.

I took my src directory, and added some sub directories,

src/
src/src_server/
src/src_main/

I moved some cpp files from src/ to src/src_server/ and then added the compile rule,

Code:

# compile src c++ server objects
$(BDIR)/%.o: $(SOURCELOC)/src_server/%.cpp
    $(CC++) $(CFLAGS) $(VFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

This is what "worked fine". The src files in src/src_server/ got compiled and the objects placed in BDIR.

I tried the same thing with some fortran files, moving them to src/src_main/ and adding the compile rule,

Code:

# compile src gfortran main function objects
# compile src g77 objects
$(BDIR)/%.o: $(SOURCELOC)/src_main/%.FOR \
                      $(SOURCELOC)/src_main/COMMON.BLK \
                      $(SOURCELOC)/src_main/PARAM.DAT \
                      $(SOURCELOC)/src_main/ATSYMB.DAT
    $(FCOMP) $(FCFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

When I run the make, I get a message that there is no rule to compile the object for the first src file and it quits. I need to reproduce the message and then I will post the output. Under cygwin, I am using make 3.81. I am also doing this in ubuntu, so I will have to boot into that to get the version that is installed there.

At first, I thought the issue may have been with COMMON.BLK, PARAM.DAT, etc, but I thought that would generate a compiler error, not a message about a missing rule. I am not sure why these files need to be included in the compile rule like they are, since they are included in the src, but I don't remember where I got the syntax for this and it's harder to find good information about Fortran make files than other languages.

LMHmedchem

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I made the changes in my cygwin make file, and everything worked fine. I need to go back over to linux and see if the problem persists there or not. I'm not sure if I did anything differently this time or not.

Hi.

My brief experiments suggest that targets in the first rule with syntax "%.o" will get compiled and the subsequent targets will be ignored. If this is true, then I assume your cpp rule comes before the fortran rule.

If this is the case with your makefile, you should be able to edit the makefile to place the fortran rule before the cpp rule and run make. I'm guessing that with that, the fortran will be compiled and the cpp ignored.

If my theory is true, then we can talk about how to solve the problem ... cheers, drl

( Edit 1: fixed typo )

Thank you so much for your help. I was able to get it to compile, but there are all kinds of problems in the output. I think this has nothing to do with the changes in the make, but rather with some size limits I have exceeded. These limits are not in a part of the code that I wrote, so I will have to dig in and try to locate the issue. I am going to temporarily go back to a previous version just in case any of my recent changes are part of the problem. Hopefully I can get it working properly with my old make and then I can look at restructuring the build directory again. I hope that will be tomorrow sometime, but I will post back when I get it working again.

LMHmedchem