Bug reporting

Bug reporting

[pasunuti prashanth]

Hello

We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1

Request to address this problem.

Thanks and Regards,
Prashanth(India)

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Re: Bug reporting

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-11-19 21:59, pasunuti prashanth wrote:
> We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
> 1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
> 2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1
> 
> Request to address this problem.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

This is a totally volunteer supported rolling package release system, so you
should update to the current release of all packages, and provide the info
requested, at the above link, on what versions of Windows and Cygwin you are
running, on what files, and enough of your code and data **attached** as
**text** files to reproduce the problem, either as programs or scripts.

Issues with makedepend are often the result of mistaken approaches to its use,
or misuse; MAXFILES was increased to 2K in 2012 and has been sufficient since
then; makedepend expects to be run once in each directory of a project, with
less than 2K source and included files referenced.

Most uses of makedepend have been replaced by compiler options to do so e.g

	$ clang|gcc -M -MD -MF f -MG -MM -MMD -MP -MQ t -MT t

invoked by makefile depend rules which reference the .d files generated by the
above options.

Projects using autotools may require autoreconf to be run to update
configurations to use the current tools, possibly using -f, -i, -m option flags.

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Re: Bug reporting

[Andrew Schulman via cygwin]

> Hello
> 
> We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
> 1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
> 2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1
> 
> Request to address this problem.

Brian gave you a very polite and helpful reply. But you didn't do your part
by asking a reasonable question. You didn't even tell us what you were
trying to compile, or bother to write a useful subject to your email! With
a question like that, don't expect a useful answer. You got one anyway.


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Re: Bug reporting

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-11-25 08:24, Andrew Schulman via cygwin wrote:
> On 2019-11-19 21:59, Pasunuti Prashanth wrote:
>> We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
>> 1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
>> 2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1
>>
>> Request to address this problem.
> 
> Brian gave you a very polite and helpful reply. But you didn't do your part
> by asking a reasonable question. You didn't even tell us what you were
> trying to compile, or bother to write a useful subject to your email! With
> a question like that, don't expect a useful answer. You got one anyway.

Some from other cultures may not have sufficient understanding of our culture,
or command of the language, to realize that this is a volunteer project, or be
polite by our standards.

OP may not see your response, as they may not be subscribed, so I CCed them,
they PMed me, by PM I reiterated that we are unable to help without some useful
information, but will not do their assignment or job, or fix their project.

At this time of year, September 9582nd[1], various academic and professional
deadlines are pressing, including personal deadlines for many of us!

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[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man1/sdate.1.html

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Re: Bug reporting

[Andrew Schulman via cygwin]

> On 2019-11-25 08:24, Andrew Schulman via cygwin wrote:
> > On 2019-11-19 21:59, Pasunuti Prashanth wrote:
> >> We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
> >> 1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
> >> 2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1
> >>
> >> Request to address this problem.
> > 
> > Brian gave you a very polite and helpful reply. But you didn't do your part
> > by asking a reasonable question. You didn't even tell us what you were
> > trying to compile, or bother to write a useful subject to your email! With
> > a question like that, don't expect a useful answer. You got one anyway.
> 
> Some from other cultures may not have sufficient understanding of our culture,
> or command of the language, to realize that this is a volunteer project, or be
> polite by our standards.

You're right of course. I should be more patient. Andrew


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Re: Bug reporting

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-11-29 05:02, Andrew Schulman via cygwin wrote:
>> On 2019-11-25 08:24, Andrew Schulman via cygwin wrote:
>>> On 2019-11-19 21:59, Pasunuti Prashanth wrote:
>>>> We are facing a bug problem during compilation.
>>>> 1. "makedepend: error: out of space: increase MAXFILES"
>>>> 2. make[1]: *** [Makefile:327: dep] error 1
>>>> Request to address this problem.
>>> Brian gave you a very polite and helpful reply. But you didn't do your part
>>> by asking a reasonable question. You didn't even tell us what you were
>>> trying to compile, or bother to write a useful subject to your email! With
>>> a question like that, don't expect a useful answer. You got one anyway.
>> Some from other cultures may not have sufficient understanding of our culture,
>> or command of the language, to realize that this is a volunteer project, or be
>> polite by our standards.
> You're right of course. I should be more patient.

It has taken decades of beating downs with ridiculous tickets and support calls,
to stop me reaching for and wielding the clue stick vigorously.
People are so clueless, they don't know what having a clue is.
So try to teach them how to deal with issues, so they don't have to ask the same
questions again, and have an approach for similar questions.
My favourites are the annual application users: I ran something a year ago and
it doesn't work this year.

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