another way of asking my question would be &quot;how does this makefile stanza work&quot;?<div>&gt; L4_EXT_CFLAGS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">			</span>:= $(call L4_BID_PKG_CONFIG_CALL,$(L4OBJ),--cflags --define-variable=libc_variant=libc,$(L4_REQUIRED_MODS))<br>
<div>&gt; ifneq ($(call L4_BID_PKG_CONFIG_FAILED,$(L4_EXT_CFLAGS)),)</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>&gt; $(info  Getting required compilation flags failed.)</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
&gt; $(info  L4OBJ: $(L4OBJ))</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>&gt; $(info  L4_REQUIRED_MODS: $(L4_REQUIRED_MODS))</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
&gt; $(error Aborting.)</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>&gt; endif</div><div><br></div><div>grepping the tree I dont see where L4_BID_PKG_CONFIG_CALL or L4_BID_PKG_CONFIG_FAILED are defined/modified.</div>
<div>Thanks</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, eric van tassell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:evttxl@gmail.com">evttxl@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I was endeavoring to follow <a href="http://wiki.tudos.org/Quickstart" target="_blank">http://wiki.tudos.org/Quickstart</a>.</div>
<div>Below&#39;s the tail of the build log.</div><div>Thanks for any suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>L4 source directory: /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4</div><div>PWD=/home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4 make -C /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4 -f /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4linux/arch/l4/Makefile.l4conf O=/home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4/out L4X_LOOP_CHECK=1 OUTPUT=/home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4linux/out/Makeconf.l4conf</div>

<div>  GEN     /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4linux/out/Makeconf.l4conf</div><div>  GEN     /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4linux/out/Makefile</div><div>scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig arch/l4/Kconfig</div>
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Getting required compilation flags failed.</div><div>L4OBJ: /home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4/out</div><div>L4_REQUIRED_MODS: stdlibs log l4re_c-util libio shmc rtc</div><div>/home/evt/wrk/L4/TUD/forest1/src/l4linux/arch/l4/Makefile:301: *** Aborting..  </div>

<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>- evt<br>(Eric van Tassell)<br>twitter: evt_texelsoft<br>linked-in: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/evttxl" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/evttxl</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- evt<br>(Eric van Tassell)<br>twitter: evt_texelsoft<br>linked-in: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/evttxl">linkedin.com/in/evttxl</a><br>
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